This is the most expensive asteroid in the universe, its value is more than the whole earth

JAKARTA, REQnews – An asteroid named Psyche 16, scientists believe has a much higher price than the economic value of the entire Earth.

The asteroid, discovered by the Capodimonte observatory in Naples in 1852, orbits between Mars and Jupiter.

This celestial body has a size that is so large, which is 226 km in diameter and an area of ​​​​165,800 square km, which is believed to be part of the core of a primitive planet.

United States scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who is the principal investigator of this asteroid, said Psyche 16 has an economic value of about 10 quadrillion US dollars on Earth.

This amount is certainly like the Earth and the sky, when compared to the value of the world economy as of 2019, which only reached 142 trillion US dollars.

Lindy said 95 percent of Psyche’s content is high value metals, especially iron and nickel. Of course, these metals differ in value from those contained on Earth.

Meanwhile, according to researchers from the University of Arizona, David Cantillo in The Planetary Science Journal, the mass of this asteroid consists of 82.5 percent metal, 7 percent low iron pyroxene and 10.5 percent carbonaceous chondrite. Free space in it reaches 35 percent.

“Pschye as a debris pile would be highly unpredictable, but our data continue to show a low density estimate despite the high metal content,” Catillo said. Entrepreneur.

He confirmed that Psyche 16 was a mine of wealth. A new study has made it possible to develop a map of the asteroid.

The bottom line is, the asteroid stores a wealth greater than the total terrestrial economy.

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