Meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid

ScienceDaily
Dec 21, 2020, 12:18 pm65 pts
A team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a small shard of a meteorite that arrived on Earth a dozen years ago. The composition of a piece of the meteorite Almahata Sitta (AhS) indicates that its parent body was an asteroid roughly the size of Ceres, the largest…

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