Los Alamos National Laboratory: Simulating Crash Into Asteroid Reveals Its Heavy Metal Psyche
August 11, 2020
August 11, 2020
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release:
New 2D and 3D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile. Knowing this will be critical to NASA's forthcoming asteroid mission, Psyche: Journey to a Metal World, that launches in 2022.
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New 2D and 3D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile. Knowing this will be critical to NASA's forthcoming asteroid mission, Psyche: Journey to a Metal World, that launches in 2022.
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