{"id":39981,"date":"2026-01-04T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=39981"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:32:40","slug":"the-nasa-psyche-mission-the-first-up-close-exploration-of-a-metal-rich-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=39981","title":{"rendered":"The NASA Psyche Mission: The First up-Close Exploration of a Metal-Rich World<span class=\"badge-status\" style=\"background:#787878\">OPEN ACCESS<\/span>&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James F. Bell III, Lindy Elkins-Tanton &amp; Carol A. Polanskey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Space Science Reviews, Volume 222, article number 5, Published: 03 January 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editorial Notes of the collection <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/collections\/fhhgidehgc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>&#8220;The NASA Psyche Mission: Science Instruments and Investigations&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11214-025-01255-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LINK (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s11214-025-01255-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PDF (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">&#8220;The main belt asteroid (16) Psyche was discovered in 1852 at the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte in Naples, Italy by Annibale de Gasparis, who named the new minor planet after the eponymous Greek goddess. Over the more than 220 years since, astronomers have discovered that Psyche is the largest and most massive of the so-called \u201cM Class\u201d asteroids, with average visible to near-IR colors and spectral properties similar to those of many of the metallic meteorites in the world\u2019s collections. Indeed, Psyche is now thought to singularly comprise roughly 1% of the mass of the main belt, and to have among the highest densities of any known asteroid (\u223c4.1 g\/cm3). [\u2026]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James F. Bell III, Lindy Elkins-Tanton &amp; Carol A. Polanskey Space Science Reviews, Volume 222, article number 5, Published: 03 January 2026 Editorial Notes of the collection &#8220;The NASA Psyche Mission: Science Instruments and Investigations&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,2495,5891,181],"tags":[2496,1854,1019,2298,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39983,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981\/revisions\/39983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}