The Core
Entire #10 Planet Core Hello and welcome, to the end of Project star When we think of the earth's core we think of molten metal thousands of miles beneath the earth's surface. But we really do not know much else about it. When it comes to the core of our planet, it's incredibly difficult to research because in order to study it we would have to dig thousands of miles down, and have tools that could withstand both the extreme heat and pressure without breaking. However recently a team at NASA discovered an Asteroid that could potentially help us learn more about our own planet. (image source) This asteroid is named 16 Psyche and is 173 miles wide, 140 miles long and made mostly of metal. Psyche resides within our sun's orbit and floats between Jupitar and Mars which is around 272 million miles away. On a side note, scientists calculated that 16 Psyche has a 5 year long solar orbit with 4 hour long days meaning that there are 10,950 days in one Psyche year. Lastly...