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16 Psyche
One of the largest asteroids, here for its size, and the most peculiar of them: radar and density say it is largely metal rather than rock, which one reading makes the exposed core of a body whose outer layers were stripped off in a collision. NASA's Psyche spacecraft is on its way and arrives in 2029, so this is one of the few entries here that will be rewritten by something other than a telescope.
- Radius
- 111 km
- Around the equator
- 697 km
- From the Sun
- 459,697,417 km (+180,107 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 548,249,039 km (-1,413,980 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 30 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.