NASA to send billion-dollar spacecraft on 7-year journey to metal asteroid in hopes of finding gemstones
Shocked scientists discover ‘smoking gun evidence’ inside supermassive black holeThe mysterious metal asteroid — known as 16 Psyche — is located between Mars and Jupiter and it will take the spacecraft seven years to reach the potentially lucrative rock.
It will take off on its 4-billion-mile journey on Friday at 10:19 a.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When it reenters Earth, it will land in Utah, according to Nelson. The potato-shaped asteroid was first discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis. The asteroid is special due to being “metal rich,” NASA scientists said, and could be the “core of an early planetesimal.”
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