16 Psyche photograph

16 Psyche

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Radius113 km
Mass2. 72 × 10^19 kg
Orbital period1,823 days
Surface area165802501052
Equatorial surface gravity~0. 015 g
Spectral typeM-type asteroid
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID2179187
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About 16 Psyche


Psyche is one of the ten most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt. This object is over 200 km in diameter and contains about 1% of the mass of the entire asteroid belt. It is thought to be the exposed iron core of a protoplanet, and is the most massive metallic M-type asteroid.

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