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'Baby asteroid' just a toddler in space years
Science Daily· 2 days agoThe team derived the age of Selam, a "moonlet" circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, based only on dynamics ...
Pieces of distant asteroid show ‘bombardment’ that happens to objects in space
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPieces of a distant asteroid show the “bombardment” that objects in space undergo, according to the...
Rogue Planets, Abundant Asteroids: Space Is More Crowded Than We Thought
Forbes· 4 days agoToday the Asteroid Institute announced it has used advanced computational methods to discover 27,500...
Micrometeoroid Bombardment and Magnetic Fields: Decoding the Effects of Interplanetary Space on ...
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoSamples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface ofasteroid Ryugu, some probably due to...
Probing the effects of interplanetary space on asteroid Ryugu
Phys.org· 5 days agoAnalyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2...
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
New York Post· 3 days agoWe may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our...
Major meteor shower to peak in California sky. Here’s when — and how to catch a glimpse
Sacramento Bee via AOL· 4 hours agoAs they shoot across the sky, they will travel at around 44 miles per second. About 60 meteors pass...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 3 days agoFor the first time, scientists have traced an asteroid to its exact place of origin—a particular crater on the moon. Unlike most near-Earth asteroids,...
Researchers just found more than 1,000 new solar system objects hiding in plain sight
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoArtificial intelligence trained by asteroid-hunting citizen scientists helped identify more than...
Animation Shows Project Lyra's Ridiculous Maneuver To Catch Interstellar Asteroid
IFLScience· 1 day agoIn 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS observatory looking for near-Earth asteroids spotted an object as it hurtled past our Sun at 38.3 kilometers per second (23.8 miles ...