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The metal ball that has caught Nasa's fancy rate hikes this year

Humankind has visited rocky worlds & icy worlds and worlds made of gas, but never seen a metal world

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Kenneth Chang
Nasa will be heading to a metal world.

The space agency announced on Wednesday that a spacecraft named Psyche would visit an asteroid named Psyche, one of two new missions it will be launching into the solar system in the 2020s.

“For the purpose of simplicity, and out of our initial excitement, we just named our mission directly after what we’re going to visit,” said Lindy Elkins-Tanton, director of the Arizona State University school of earth and space exploration, who will serve as the mission’s principal investigator.

From radar observations, Psyche the asteroid appears ellipsoid in shape, about as wide as Massachusetts. It