Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger ...
Scattered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies the main asteroid belt — a vast region filled with rocky remnants left over from the birth of the solar system. These objects, known as asteroids ...
Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
ESA's Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration ...