16 Psyche: The $10 Quintillion Asteroid That Could Dwarf Global Economy – NASA Mission Revealed Discover the mind-blowing story of 16 Psyche, a 220 km-wide asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, packed with iron, nickel, and gold worth an estimated $10 quintillion – that's 70,000 times the global economy! Could $1.2 billion from this cosmic vault change everything? NASA's Psyche spacecraft, launched in 2023, is racing toward it, arriving in 2029 to uncover if it's a shattered planet's core.

16 Psyche: An asteroid once thought to be worth $700 quintillion

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NASA’s mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche, located in the asteroid belt, has revealed one of the largest known gold reservoirs in the universe, estimated at 27 quintillion tons, valued at $700 quintillion. Launched in October 2023, the Psyche spacecraft aims to map and analyze the asteroid’s composition, not mine it, with arrival expected in 2029. This asteroid, potentially a remnant of a failed planet’s core, contains iron, nickel, and gold, offering insights into planetary formation.