Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

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Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

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2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was pushed towards Earth by a gravitational interaction with Jupiter, which ...

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and thus have the potential to provide scientists with a window into the formation of our solar system. Donaldjohanson is a medium-sized asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

The asteroid ... this asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA. The space agency says that these asteroids would have formed in the early history of the solar system when the ...

The Lucy spacecraft's observations revealed the asteroid to have an elongated shape and an odd narrow ... Donaldjohanson is ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

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