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The NASA mission to Asteroid (16) Psyche will launch in 2022. While impact craters are readily observed on rocky and icy bodies throughout the solar system, craters on surfaces made of metal are not as well understood. To best understand and interpret data and observations from the spacecraft at Psyche, cratering experiments have been conducted into centimeter-sized iron-nickel cylinders and iron meteorite cubes. In this work, we use numerical modeling to reproduce cratering experiments at the millimeter and centimeter scale to ensure shock physics software like iSALE and CTH can be used to explore cratering at the larger scale (meters to kilometers) on metal-rich surfaces like the asteroid Psyche.