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Among the known populations of asteroids, metallic, or class M, are undoubtedly the rarest. But also the most valuable. And although they are difficult to find and identify, NASA has had its eye on one of them, one that has attracted the attention of scientists since the moment it was discovered, in 1852, by the astronomer Annibale de Gasparis. It is about Psyche, a body 210 km in diameter that is located in the main asteroid belt, that ring of rocks of all sizes that occupies the space where there should be, but there is not, another planet, right between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche’s composition and richness dwarf… View More