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16 Psyche
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16 Psyche. A journey of about 5.01 years around the Sun.
Discover 16 Psyche in the main asteroid belt, with an orbital semi-major axis of about 2.93 astronomical units and a reported diameter of roughly 222 km, then explore its place in the Solar System on the SPACE-di interactive map.
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2000016
Reference material: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 3D render credits
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16 Psyche: exploring our Solar System’s small worlds…
16 Psyche is a small body in the Solar System, our region of space within the universe. The Sun is the star at the centre of this system. Explore its story and place in our planetary neighbourhood, then find it on the interactive 3D space map.
16 Psyche is a large main-belt asteroid and the destination of NASA’s Psyche mission. Its unusually high metal content makes it a valuable test of ideas about differentiated planetary cores.