Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Their sizes vary significantly, from Vesta—the largest, measuring about 329 miles (530 kilome ...

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

Within a few years three other asteroids, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta ... asteroid Eunike, or No. 185, which had not been observed since 1889 and which should be found, according to its computed orbit ...

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The asteroid Vesta has about 28% of the mass of Ceres ... Main belt asteroids are the most common asteroid and are found in a belt in orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...