I have close friends working on Psyche! You are right that our understanding of small bodies is going up very quickly, it's quite exciting (in asteroid terms) t

I have close friends working on Psyche! You are right that our understanding of small bodies is going up very quickly, it's quite exciting (in asteroid terms) to be alive now; a lot is being answered and re-questioned with actual evidence. Hopefully (knock on wood) JWST gets up there soon and a LOT more questions can be answered. One issue we have is that there is this 'gap' in planet formation modeling. We can figure out small bodies and large bodies, but things that are ~1m to ~1km in size don't work in the models; they should all just fly apart. Somehow planets do form, but getting there is a pickle, theoretically. Asteroids are likely THE key to understanding that gap, and that should help out with a LOT of system formation dynamics. Also, I'm still bullish on finding a LOT of platinum/gold on asteroids, because space mining. Like, eat your heart out Bruce Willis.