NASA has sent a mission to seize an asteroid worth $10 trillion

NASA is headed for a distant asteroid worth an unthinkable sum.

It is said that the space stone called 16 Psyche worth U$10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars) here on earth.

But while the staggering sum would be enough to make anyone in the world a billionaire, the organization has no plans to take the asteroid for cash. Instead, they hope to study it to better understand how planets form, they report Daily Star.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy spacecraft lifted off on Friday (October 13) and is now hurtling through the solar system on its way to a rock located in the main asteroid belt. between Mars and Jupiter.

The rocket, which was launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida, United States, will now fly 3.5 million kilometers through the atmosphere to an asteroid.

The spacecraft was originally supposed to launch last year, but the mission was delayed due to software problems, he says. Daily Star.

And although the shuttle is moving full steam ahead, it is expected to arrive at its final destination sooner rather than later July 2029because the asteroid is very far away.

The spacecraft is expected to accelerate on a flyby of Mars in May 2026.

16 Psyche is the largest of the nine metal-rich asteroids in our solar system, he says Daily Star.

Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told Space.com: “Psyche is by far the biggest, and that’s why we want to go into it, because the smaller ones are more likely to have been altered by things that affect them. , while the big one, we believe, will not change completely.

The asteroid measures approx 280 km wide and 232 km long. It has a surface 165,800 square kilometers, about the same as the provinces Córdoba.