The giant M-Type asteroid is thought to be the partial core of a small planet that failed to fully form during the earliest days of our solar system. Some scientists believe the Psyche is made almost entirely of iron and nickel, which could make it worth as much as $10,000 quadrillion.
NASA has given the okay to its long-delayed US$985 million Psyche deep-space mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also called Psyche, that may be worth as much as $10 quadrillion, or 90 times the world's entire $110-trillion economy.
This year, NASA will launch a probe. to an extremely rare asteroid. worth ten quintillion dollars. That is 70,000 times the entire global economy. The asteroid, named Saiki, is thought to be the core of a planet.
A massive metal asteroid between Mars and Jupiter is known as 16 Psyche. According to Forbes, 16 Psyche, a 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid could contain a core of iron, nickel, and gold worth $10,000 quadrillion.
NASA mission to Psyche asteroid worth $10 quintillion back on track.
Discussions about 16 Psyche never stray too far from its presumed astronomical value. It has been said that 16 Psyche could be worth about $10,000 quadrillion, many times larger than the global economy, which was measured as being about $142 trillion in 2019, though that should be taken with large a pinch of salt.
It's important to stress that 2023 PDC is a purely hypothetical object and it isn't on course to impact Earth. In fact, currently, there are no large asteroids predicted to hit Earth for the next 100 years.
There is an asteroid with a metal-composition that lurks around between Mars and Jupiter while orbiting the Sun and it is made up mainly of gold. Named 'Psyche 16', it was first discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis and he named the asteroid after the Greek Goddess of Soul 'Psyche'.
16 Psyche was once thought to be worth $700 quintillion
Due to seemingly contradictory readings, scientists have so far found it difficult to ascertain the exact composition of the giant space rock. The light that reflects off the asteroid suggests that it is indeed composed mostly of metal.
An asteroid in space has been identified as having a value of approximately $700 quintillion. If NASA were to capture the asteroid and distribute its resources among people, each individual would receive around $93 billion!
A NASA mission aims to reveal a massive metal asteroid between Mars and Jupiter called 16 Psyche estimated to contain a core of iron, nickel, and gold worth $10,000 quadrillion.
Scientists estimate it would take an asteroid about 7 to 8 miles (11 to 12 kilometers) wide crashing into the Earth. Once it made impact, it would create a tremendous dust plume that would envelope the entire planet, block out the sun and raise temperatures where the asteroid made impact.
In the American system, the Latin prefix refers to the number of groups of three zeros, not including the last group of three, which represents a thousand. Thus in the USA, a billion is 1,000,000,000 (109) and a quadrillion is a mere 1,000,000,000,000,000. (1015).
Our results established that the huge impact that destroyed Itokawa's parent asteroid and formed Itokawa happened more than 4.2 billion years ago, which is almost as old as the Solar System itself. That result was totally unexpected.
1 Ceres - The largest and first discovered asteroid, by G. Piazzi on January 1, 1801. Ceres comprises over one-third the 2.3 x 1021 kg estimated total mass of all the asteroids. Studied from orbit by the Dawn mission in 2015-2016.
The moon, by comparison, is around 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away from Earth. Referred to as “city killer,” the asteroid — which measures between 40 and 100 meters (131 to 328 feet) in size — will do nothing of the sort.
The asteroid, which is 140 miles wide, is so rich in precious metals that if it were captured and divided equally among the Earth's population, every individual could become a billionaire. According to Forbes, 16 Psyche could contain a core of iron, nickel, and gold worth nearly $10,000 quadrillion.
NASA's next mission will explore a massive asteroid that could possibly make everyone on Earth a bonafide billionaire. The space agency has confirmed that it is launching a mission next year to explore an asteroid worth a whopping $10,000 quadrillion.
At current prices, the minerals contained in asteroid 16 Psyche are said to be worth $700 quintillion — enough to give everyone on the planet $93 billion. We're all going to be richer than Jeff Bezos! OK, now for the bad news: This isn't going to happen.
Saturn is surrounded by over 1000 rings made of ice and dust. Some of the rings are very thin and some are very thick. The size of the particles in the rings range from pebble-size to house-size. Scientists believe that the particles came from the destruction of moons circling the planet.
The diamond rain phenomenon is believed by some scientists to take place on Uranus and Neptune in our solar system. It is thought it exists some 8,000 km below the surface of our ice giant neighbours, created from commonly found mixtures of hydrogen and carbon, squeezed together at incredible pressure.
The moon isn't so barren after all. A 2009 NASA mission—in which a rocket slammed into the moon and a second spacecraft studied the blast—revealed that the lunar surface contains an array of compounds, including gold, silver, and mercury, according to PBS.
About 66 million years ago, a space rock 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide now called the Chicxulub impactor slammed into Earth off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
It is certainly possible, but would be a difficult and expensive task. The key would be in deflecting the asteroid away from its collision course with Earth rather than shattering it into equally dangerous debris.
NASA has issued a warning regarding an alarming asteroid that is on its way, which will come dangerously close to Earth. This asteroid, known as Asteroid 2023 JD, will get astonishingly close to earth at just 821,000 miles.