activity duration and distribution within the asteroid belt, for example – so that they can be better used to trace ice in the Solar System in general." The study is published in Research Notes ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

A disk of water vapor is then superimposed on the asteroid belt orbiting the sun. As the ice sublimates, the disk fills with ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

They are found concentrated in the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. The orbits of asteroids bring them within 120 million miles of the sun.

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Their sizes vary significantly, from Vesta—the largest, measuring about 329 miles (530 kilome ...

I am particularly interested in polar ice caps and their interactions with planetary atmospheres ... Volatiles also appear in seemingly unlikely places (Mercury, Moon, and the Asteroid Belt) and in ...

There aren't just planets out there orbiting the sun, there are also chunks of rock, ice, and dust ... between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt, but some can make their way a little ...