Understanding the Origin and Evolution Iron-Rich Worlds from Spacecraft Exploration of Asteroid (16) Psyche

Benjamin P Weiss1, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton2, James F Bell III2, Richard P Binzel3, Saverio Cambioni4, Tim McCoy5, Carol Ann Polanskey6, David J Lawrence7, Daniel Wenkert8 and Maria Zuber9, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (5)Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States