Solar radiation packs a punch capable of creating and destroying asteroid families. By Alison Klesman | Published: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Trojan asteroids don’t orbit in the main belt. Instead, they are asteroids that share an orbit with a major planet, such as Jupiter, Earth, or Mars. Now, astronomers have determined that sunlight is responsible for creating and destroying Trojans around Mars,
On the evening of Nov. 16th, aurora tour guide Tony Bateman of northern Finland was indoors, warming up between auroras, when his surroundings began to vibrate. “There was a huge bang and the cottage shook violently,” he reports. “At first I thought it was an earthquake. Or maybe a tree fell on the cottage roof! I walked outside and inspected
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered object from another star system that’s passing through ours is shaped like a giant pink fire extinguisher. That’s the word this week from astronomers who have been observing this first-ever confirmed interstellar visitor. “I’m surprised by the elongated shape – nobody expected that,” said astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California,
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