04 July 2018
Majority of asteroids come from a handful of ancient planets
... studying the nature of these potential cataclysmic bodies that could wipe out life on Earth, classify asteroids as either family or non-family groups. Family groups are those that originate from the shattering of a much larger body and non...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
... been never formulated to everyone’s agreement, the debate still rages on. As the main member of one of the largest asteroid families, with close to 7000 smaller siblings, that all originated from the same parent body, Hygiae however...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... Jupiter). Observations of increasing abundance of C-type asteroids across the main belt inferred from telescopic observations ... decade ago and are generally associated with two asteroid families: Hygeia and Themis. Evidence for outgassing activity ...
09 June 2021
Meteorites impacting Earth mainly come from a very small region of space, new study says
...colliding with Earth originate from. “We argue that meteorites and small asteroids delivered to Earth in deep time are not primarily linked to the sequence of asteroid family-forming events,” say the authors in their research paper recently published...
