Question

A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mission to the asteroid Psyche, beginning in 2022, was designed to achieve three main goals.
Can you tell us one?

Answer 1

To understand a building block of planet formation: iron cores
The asteroid appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, which offers a unique window on the kind of violent collisions and accretion that created Earth. It orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter.