Deflecting asteroids and exploring a metal world
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Psyche Is a Core of an Ancient, Growing Planetesimal
I can't wait to hear what's coming from the spacecraft. The spectrometers will tell us the chemical elements tet are there, the ironmen mickel, aluminum and calcium and hydrogen. We have developed a hypothesis that psyche is a core of an ancient, growing planetesimal. That's a hypothesis. How do you test it? That's what scientists do. They test hypotheses. One way to test it, for example, is to measure the nickel abundance. How much nickel is there? Because when we look at meteorites on the earth, they're loaded with nickel. So so these are parts of, know what we start doing scientifically when we get there. It's wonderful
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