Season 5, Episode 9: This Asteroid Is Metal
2 Jul 2021, 19:29 GMT
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/gravity-assist/gravity-assist-this-asteroid-is-metal-with-lindy-elkins-tanton/
Scientists will soon have the opportunity to visit a unique object in the asteroid belt called Psyche, which may be the exposed metallic core of a planetary body that stopped growing before it became a big planet like Earth. Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton explains.