Pallas family asteroids reveal unique blue spectroscopic profiles
Pallas has been studied for decades, given its spot as the third biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt, behind Ceres and ...
Asteroid probe snaps rare pics of Martian moon
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
Science Daily12 天
Meteorites: A geologic map of the asteroid belt
In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt. Where do meteorites of different type come ...
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Ceres, The Closest Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System To The Sun, May Have Originated Right ...
The dwarf planet stands out from all the others in the asteroid belt. It is the largest planetary ... the material was ...
Gizmodo1 个月
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Snaps First Look at Upcoming Asteroid Target
Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good look at the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson as the NASA ...
New Scientist5 年
What is a meteorite?
Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from ...