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Scientists Stunned by Discovery of 63 New Asteroid Families—What It Means Earth’s Future
Recent advancements in asteroid research have led to an extraordinary discovery: 63 new young asteroid families, ...
Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...
A menacing asteroid, some six miles wide, triggered Earth's last mass extinction. Now, scientists have found where it originated. It was "a projectile originating at the outskirts of the solar system ...
The asteroid that killed most dinosaurs 66 million years ago left behind traces of its own origin. Researchers think they know where the Chicxulub impactor came from based on levels of ruthenium. The ...
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Unexpected mineral in a Ryugu grain challenges paradigm of the nature of primitive asteroids
The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving the understanding of primitive asteroids and the formation of the solar ...
An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out ...
F. Marchis, F. Vachier, J. urech, J.E. Enriquez, A. W. Harris, P. A. Dalba, J. Berthier, J. P. Emery, H. Bouy, J. Melbourne, A. Stockton, C. D. Fassnacht, T. J. Dupuy ...
In 2020, astronomers thought they’d found something incredible: the second so-called Earth Trojan asteroid ever seen. Now, a new team of researchers has confirmed that it’s real. “The discovery of ...
Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from ...
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