16 Psyche

NASA has fast-tracked the Psyche mission to visit a one-of-a-kind asteroid
worth $10,000 quadrillion.

Unlike most asteroids that are either icy or rocky, 16 Psyche is composed
almost entirely of metallic iron and nickel, similar to the core of the
Earth. If anyone could mine that asteroid, the resulting riches would
collapse the paltry Earth economy of around $74 trillion.

Its such a strange object, said Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist
on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State Universitys School
of Earth and Space Exploration, in a January interview with Canadas *Global
News*

.

Even if we could grab a big metal piece and drag it back here what would
you do? Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global
resource kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately and protect
your market? What if you decided you were going to bring it back and you
were just going to solve the metal resource problems of humankind for all
time? (This is wild speculation obviously.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2017/05/26/nasa-psyche-mission-fast-tracked/#69545a4a4ae8

*16 Psyche* is one of the ten most massive

asteroids in the asteroid belt
. It is over 200 km (120 mi)
in diameter and contains a little less than 1% of the mass of the entire
asteroid belt. It is thought to be the exposed iron core of a protoplanet
.[5]
It is the
most massive metallic M-type asteroid
. Psyche was discovered by
the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis
on 17 March 1852 from
Naples and named after the Greek
mythological figure Psyche
.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche

Unlike most asteroids that are either icy or rocky, 16 Psyche is composed almost entirely of metallic iron and nickel, similar to the core of the Earth. If anyone could mine that asteroid, the resulting riches would collapse the paltry Earth economy of around $74 trillion.
Its such a strange object, said Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State Universitys School of Earth and Space Exploration, in
a January interview with Canadas
Global News
.
Even if we could grab a big metal piece and drag it back here what would you do? Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global resource kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately and protect your market? What if you decided you were going to bring it back and you were just going to solve the metal resource problems of humankind for all time? (This is wild speculation obviously.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2017/05/26/nasa-psyche-mission-fast-tracked/#69545a4a4ae8
16 Psyche
is one of the
ten most massive

asteroids
in the
asteroid belt
. It is over 200km (120mi) in diameter and contains a little less than 1% of the mass of the entire asteroid belt. It is thought to be the exposed iron core of a
protoplanet
.
[5]
It is the most massive metallic
M-type asteroid
. Psyche was discovered by the Italian astronomer
Annibale de Gasparis
on 17 March 1852 from
Naples
and named after the
Greek mythological figure

Psyche
.
[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche