New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...
Asteroids are exposed to solar ... the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. ... [+] Most of them are larger than 100 kilometres, with the two biggest asteroids being Ceres and Vesta ...
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 ...
The next largest asteroids in the solar system are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter. All three also lie within the asteroid belt. Every other asteroid ...