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We welcome special guest Dr. Zoe Landsman back to the show to tell us about the metal asteroid Psyche and the eponymous mission to visit it. We get an update on an observational test of one of the central pillars of cosmology, and have some spaceship\/asteroid\/comet trivia to stump the astroquarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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