Space Daily - 7. heinäkuuta 2026
Asteroid 16 Psyche, a metal-rich world roughly 225 kilometres wide orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, may contain extraordinary amounts of iron and nickel — enough that back-of-the-envelope estimates have put its theoretical metal value at around $10,000 quadrillion, a number so vast it dwarfs the entire global economy.
The number attached to asteroid 16 Psyche is so large that it almost stops being a number. Around $10,000 quadrillion. Ten quintillion dollars. More than the annual output of the entire world economy by orders of magnitude. That figure has followed Psyche for…
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