Astronomers Used Meteorites to Create a Geological Map of the Main Asteroid Belt
Astronomers Used Meteorites to Create a Geological Map of the Main Asteroid Belt
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March 19, 2025 at 02:49AM
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More than one million asteroids larger than 1 km exist in the main asteroid belt (MAB) between Mars and Jupiter. Their roots are in a much smaller number of larger asteroids that broke apart because of collisions, and the MAB is populated with debris fields from these collisions. Researchers have created a geological map of the MAB by tracking meteorites that fell to Earth and determining which of these debris fields they originated in.
March 19, 2025 at 02:49AM
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