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The 16 Psyche asteroid has been one of the most shocking discoveries in recent years. One of the biggest asteroids in our solar system, 16 Psyche is made up of gold, nickel, and iron deposits. According to NASA, this asteroid could be worth more than the whole Earth's economy put together. It is worth a staggering $10 quadrillion! To study it up close, NASA is in the final stages of preparation for its Psyche Mission where the spacecraft will go on a momentous 4 billion kilometer journey to reach the asteroid. With the…

As the solar system formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago, some rocks, which couldn't form into planets, were left behind. These space rocks are known as Asteroids. Asteroids have several shapes, they may be spherical, elongated, or oddly shaped. The asteroids that travel around the Sun in their elliptical paths also rotate, sometimes in a disorderly manner, according to NASA. Although asteroids make close approaches to Earth nearly every day, they do so safely or most of them burn up in the planet's atmosphere itself.…