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Gravity Assist: This Asteroid Is Metal, With Lindy Elkins-Tanton

07.02.2021 - By National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Play

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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.

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