... discovered that studying meteorites from the giant asteroid Vesta helps them understand the event known as the "lunar cataclysm," when a repositioning of the gas giant planets destabilized a portion of the asteroid belt and triggered a solar-system-wide ...
... Asteroid 2000 PH5 imaged with ESO's 3.5m New Technology Telescope in Chile on August 27, 2003, over a time span of 77 minutes. ... The asteroid can be seen moving relative to the background stars. ESO. ...
... These illustrations show the asteroid belt in the present day and in the early solar ... image shows the conventional model for the asteroid belt, largely composed of rocky ...
... Dawn will use an ion propulsion system to journey to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. ... Once there, it will study Ceres, Vesta, and other asteroids with a suite of scientific instruments. UCLA / William K. Hartmann. ...
... A UMd-led team has found asteroids, as old as our solar system. ... Gaspra, imaged above, is an asteroid in our solar system that orbits the Sun. NEAR/ JPL/NASA. ...
... After undergoing a catastrophic collision, the color of an asteroid gets modified rapidly by the solar wind so that it resembles the mean color of extremely old asteroids. ...
... indicate that there are at least 40 percent fewer near-Earth asteroids in total that are larger than 330 feet (100 meters ... Each red dot represents one asteroid. Object sizes are not to scale. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. ...
... In the foreground are asteroids and chondrules, the building blocks of chondritic meteorites. ... fields dominate the region near the sun, out where the asteroids orbit, chondrules preserve a record of varying local magnetic ...