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Mapping a meteoroid’s long journey from Vesta to Earth

Motopi Pan left the asteroid 22 million years ago, and now the journey’s been traced.
22 million years ago, something smashed into the big, bright Vesta asteroid, ejecting a meteoroid into space.Scie...
Astronomy April 30, 2021
Bits of big asteroid found on small one

NASA’s Bennu sampling mission may be a twofer.
Scientists poring over images from the asteroid 101955 Bennu, now being orbited by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, have...
Astronomy October 30, 2020
What on Ceres are those bright spots?

As NASA inches closer to an answer, astrophysicist Alan Duffy weighs the possibilities.
If the aim of travel is to view strange new sights and broaden the mind, NASA’s voyage to the asteroid belt to examin...
Space June 15, 2015

Mapping a meteoroid’s long journey from Vesta to Earth