How Much Water Did The Asteroid Belt Send to Earth?
Special Delivery! Could the Earth’s water have arrived from the asteroid belt?
Special Delivery! Could the Earth’s water have arrived from the asteroid belt?
Come learn more about one of NASA’s upcoming missions — Lucy — which will be exploring asteroids!
Most basaltic asteroids are thought to originate from the dwarf planet Vesta. However, some of these asteroids are far from Vesta and exhibit different spectra, implying a second point of origin.
Just the mention of asteroid bombardment is frightening to most, but for Dr. Bottke it is all fun and games.
We’ve detected planets around pulsars before, but this pulsar has an even stranger signal. Could it be due to an asteroid belt similar to the one in our solar system orbiting it?