NASA's mission to the 'golden asteroid' is on track after months of scrutiny from an independent review board that described it as possible to move forward with the Psyche mission. The space agency aims to venture to a metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche.
The asteroid contains gold and is believed to also contain platinum, iron, and nickel. Its estimated value is about $10,000 quadrillion, which is enough to make every person on Earth a billionaire. NASA-JPL said that the asteroid appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an ancient planet, one of the building blocks of the Solar System.
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