(16) Psyche - MPCD model animated

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marin
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Release Date
2022-06-14
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Shape model of the large main-belt asteroid (16) Psyche generated using high resolution images from the SPHERE instrument on the VLT (more details on this imaging survey are published in [this article](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...654A..56V/abstract)). ![Images of Psyche with the VLT](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Psyche_asteroid_eso.jpg) Psyche is a large (~222 km) metallic asteroid that will be visited by a NASA probe in 2026.