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My main interest in planetary
science is because it's

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the closet part of the cosmos
that we can actually go,

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see, visit and probe.

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Psyche is a large asteroid
in the main belt that is

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in between Mars and Jupiter.

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Our experience, so far, in terms
of exploring the solar system

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has been with either
rocky, or icy bodies.

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What's particularly
interesting about Psyche is

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we think it's a metallic object.

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We have a common understanding,
perhaps, of, you know, how

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regular common rocks behave.

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But, metal behave in a
very different way.

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What I contribute to the mission
is trying to understand how

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cratering and the process of
collision and interaction work

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for a metallic object.

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And, we will use this
information, then, to understand

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what we see at the surface
once we get there.

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What we did is take
an iron meteorite,

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put it in the, in the chamber
and use it as a target

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for our impetus experiment.

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And, we were shooting quartz bit

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at high speed in order
to produce a crater.

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Everything has been filmed
with high-speed cameras.

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So, we have a tremendous
amount of data that shows

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in high resolution what
happened during the contact,

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during the explosion,

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and how the crater
forms on the surface.

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So, everything has been
documented in great details.

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Here we have a piece of
the Gibeon meteorite.

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And, what we see here is a
crater that was produced in

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as a result of one of
our experiments. And,

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traditionally with rocks, the
rim would be blasted away

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and would be a sort of a
flattish feature. But here,

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we see there's flaps that
basically, are frozen

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into place and this is because
the metal is much harder

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than rocks. And so,
you can then retain

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this interesting morphology.

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There's going to be a very
exciting phase of the mission

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when we actually start
gathering data.

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And, there's going to
be lots of surprises.

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I just can't wait to be there
and see whether or not

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there is, you know,