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Lab Work Digs Into Gullies Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn
scientists have previously hypothesized that meteoroid impacts could have exposed and melted ice that lay under the surface of worlds like Vesta. In that scenario, flows resulting from this ...
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70 Percent Of Meteorites That Hit Earth Appear To Have A Common Origin
Most of it burns up harmlessly in our atmosphere, but the few that do make it to the surface can be studied ... These were meteorites that came from Vesta (the second largest asteroid in the ...
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Ves­ta and Ceres: born at the same time and yet so dif­fer­ent
Vesta, with a diameter of between 460 and 580 kilometres, is the third largest asteroid. It rotates around its own axis in five hours and 20 minutes, and requires 3.6 Earth years to complete an orbit ...