Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu are Part of Polana Collisional Family, Webb Observations Suggest
The brand-new Polana collisional household in the Solar System’s primary asteroid belt is the assumed origin of the near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu, which was the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx objective,…
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Phew! No ‘doomsday’ asteroids hide in famous broken comet’s debris stream
Comet 2P/Encke, imaged near to Mercury in 2013 by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA/JHUPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/SwRI) A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids believed to be…
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