But on some worlds, including the giant asteroid Vesta that NASA’s Dawn ... scientists said. To re-create Vesta-like conditions that would occur after a meteoroid impact, the scientists relied ...

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 ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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 ...

Of the 10% of meteorites without a known source, 6% come from the moon, Mars or Vesta, the latter one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. All meteor showers ...

Abstract: Dawn space mission will provide the first, detailed data of two of the major bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Through its connection with Howardite, Eucrite, Diogenite (HED ...

The distribution of rotational rates of 59 V-type asteroids in the inner main belt, including 29 members of the Vesta family, which are regarded as being ejecta from the asteroid (4) Vesta, is ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was sent to study two of the largest asteroids in the belt: Vesta and Ceres. The mission provided valuable insights into the geological and compositional diversity of these ...