Asteroid Archive
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![The NASA mission DAWN spent all of 2012 orbiting 4 Vesta, the 2nd largest asteroid in the asteroid belt. DAWN is equipped with a camera […]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141118144538-large-195x110.jpg "NASA Produces the First Ever Geological Map of an Asteroid")
NASA Produces the First Ever Geological Map of an Asteroid
Posted on November 23, 2014 | No CommentsThe NASA mission DAWN spent all of 2012 orbiting 4 Vesta, the 2nd largest asteroid in the asteroid belt. DAWN is equipped with a camera […] -
![Infrared images from the Herschel Space Telescope have identified water on the surface of an asteroid for the first time. Observations of the dwarf planet […]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/NEWSICON2-115x115.png "Letting off steam – scientists discover water on an asteroid")
Letting off steam – scientists discover water on an asteroid
Posted on January 25, 2014 | No CommentsInfrared images from the Herschel Space Telescope have identified water on the surface of an asteroid for the first time. Observations of the dwarf planet […] -
Fireworks in the Solar system – produced by our own Sun.
Posted on November 10, 2013 | No CommentsAstronomers using the Hubble Space telescope this week reported the discovery of an asteroid emitting streams of dust in a spherical or ‘wheel-like’ pattern. Usually asteroids […]
