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Mysterious RED asteroids found around Neptune could reveal big secrets

7Apr

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Mysterious RED asteroids found around Neptune could reveal big secrets

[ad_1] The fascination of scientists with understanding the origin of the solar system is never ending. Recently, in an attempt to uncover the secrets around it, NASA sent its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to collect samples from asteroid Bennu, which will reach Earth in the later half of this year. And now, out of the same curiosity, astronomers have turned to Neptune to understand this grand mystery. Not exactly Neptune, but the area surrounding it, which is filled with mysterious red asteroids. A new study claims that it could reveal how our solar system came to be.The study was conducted by NASA astronomer Bryce Bolin and has been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. The study focuses on the red color of the asteroids and highlights that the c...

15-ton meteorite has never-seen-before minerals; may provide clues to asteroid formation

[ad_1] Researchers found two never-seen-before minerals in a massive 15-ton meteorite that may unravel the secrets of formation of asteroids. Some meteorites come from asteroids, others from comets and some may even originate in the moon itself and even other planets. Consider them “space rocks." Occasionally, these space rocks enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up. The part that survives and hits the Earth is called a meteorite. One such meteorite was unearthed in east Africa in 2020. And what a monster rock it is! It is the ninth largest ever found to date. In size, it is simply gigantic. This 15-ton meteorite was found in Somalia. And now, it may well be on way to solving the mystery of the formation of asteroids. When researchers chopped a 70-gramme piece of this space rock, they d...

Shocking! First-ever asteroid within orbit of Venus Spotted; Meet the unique asteroid 2020 AV2

[ad_1] For the first time ever, an asteroid has been spotted that lies entirely within the orbit of Venus. Scientists believe this could give rise to an entirely new population of asteroids. The source of the majority of the asteroids in our solar system lies in the asteroid belt. Located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars, this region is the home to asteroids ranging from the size of a pebble to a dwarf planet (Ceres at 950 kilometers width). And for years, scientists have known that most asteroids are either coming from and to the asteroid belt or have been ejected by Jupiter's gravitational pull and have been stranded in a distant part of the solar system. However, this notion has been broken after ...