Treasure in Space: Golden Asteroid 16 Psyche

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Asteroid 16 Psyche has been dubbed the "golden asteroid". Estimated to be worth around ten quintillion dollars, this space rock contains massive amounts of valuable metals, including gold and platinum, making it more valuable than the entire global economy. But don’t expect a market crash just yet. Psyche is still safely orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA, however, has already launched a mission to study it, not to mine it, but to unlock secrets about the early solar system. Scientists believe Psyche could be the exposed core of an ancient, unfinished planet, offering rare insights into how rocky planets like Earth formed. Still, the idea of space mining raises big questions: if we could ever harvest resources from Psyche, could it reshape our economy, or crash the price of gold?

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