The Asteroid Belt's Slow Disappearing Act

The Asteroid Belt's Slow Disappearing Act
By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/wZiR2gd)

Asteroids have held a special place in my heart ever since I saw one silently drift between Earth and the Moon a good few years ago. Never studied them properly so more of a passing interest but any time a story relating to asteroids pops up it peaks my interest. For the most part, the origin of an asteroid is the asteroid belt, a ring of rocky debris orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. A new study has calculated precisely how fast this reservoir of space rocks is being depleted from collisions and gravitational interactions that evict asteroids and just where that material ends up.

September 29, 2025 at 07:17PM
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