Gravity Assist: This Asteroid Is Metal, With Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Published: July 2, 2021, 3:29 p.m.

Scientists will soon have the opportunity to visit a unique object in the asteroid belt called Psyche, which may be the exposed metallic core of a planetary body that stopped growing before it became a big planet like Earth. Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton explains.