Monday, December 21, 2020

Meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid

A team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a small shard of a meteorite that arrived on Earth a dozen years ago. The composition of a piece of the meteorite Almahata Sitta (AhS) indicates that its parent body was an asteroid roughly the size of Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and formed in the presence of water under intermediate temperatures and pressures.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/34AItGV

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