Psyche Science Goals and Objectives (Asteroid Chillin’)
Aurelia L. Waller
June 14, 2021
Major: Astronomical and Planetary Sciences
Genre/Medium: BandLab, Clips, iMovie, Paint 3D
About the work: “Psyche Science Goals and Objectives (Asteroid Chillin’)” is a song with a fun twist talking about Psyche’s science goals and objectives. I thought it would be neat to bring music to a STEM list.
Psyche Science Goals
– Understand a previously unexplored building block of planet formation: iron cores.
– Look inside terrestrial planets, including Earth, by directly examining the interior of a differentiated body, which otherwise could not be seen.
– Explore a new type of world. For the first time, examine a world made not of rock and ice, but metal.
Psyche Science Objectives
– Determine whether Psyche is a core, or if it is unmelted material.
– Determine the relative ages of regions of Psyche’s surface.
– Determine whether small metal bodies incorporate the same light elements as are expected in the Earth’s high-pressure core.
– Determine whether Psyche was formed under conditions more oxidizing or more reducing than Earth’s core.
– Characterize Psyche’s topography.