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Mysterious features on asteroid Vesta may be explained by saltwater
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
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There's a small chance an asteroid could hit Earth within the next decade, says NASA
South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. Nasa/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images Asteroid 2024 YR4 has an "interesting" orbit, Fast said. The elongated path takes the asteroid around the sun and into ...
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Lab Work Digs Into Gullies Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn
But on some worlds, including the giant asteroid Vesta that NASA’s Dawn mission explored, the surfaces also contain deep channels, or gullies, whose origins are not fully understood. A prime ...
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Ves­ta and Ceres: born at the same time and yet so dif­fer­ent
Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...
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When And Where To See The Big ‘City Killer’ Asteroid Called ‘Dizzy’ Whizz Close To Earth This Weekend
Project. Asteroids vary in size, from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid, Vesta, which has a diameter of 329 miles/530 kilometers and is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth ...