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Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii`s Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects. Evidence indicates that these ancient asteroi...

In Our Time - Radio 4 program on Asteroids. It is thought that asteroids are the unused building blocks of planets, 'pristine material' that has remained chemically unchanged since the creation of the solar system; a snapshot of matter at the beginning of time. Contributors[/...

Title: Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the Space Weathering and Gardening rate on S-complex asteroids Authors: Mark Willman, Robert Jedicke, Nicholas Moskovitz, David Nesvorný, David Vokrouhlický, Thais Mothé-Diniz We have extended our earlier work on space weathering of...

Asteroids named after four Chinese scientists Four asteroids have been named after Chinese scientists Wu Wenjun, Jin Yilian, Wang Yongzhi, and Ye Duzheng at a naming ceremony in Beijing on May 4, 2010. They are the four winners of China's Top National Science and Technology Award (also known as Chi...

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Asteroids Solar Solar System's oldest objects (Preview)	Solar System	1	1928	Mar 21 09:36 2008 by Blobrana
Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii`s Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects. Evidence indicates that these ancient asteroi...
Asteroids Asteroids ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 6 ) (Preview)	Solar System	50	25110	Jul 13 10:22 2017 by Blobrana
In Our Time - Radio 4 program on Asteroids. It is thought that asteroids are the unused building blocks of planets, 'pristine material' that has remained chemically unchanged since the creation of the solar system; a snapshot of matter at the beginning of time. Contributors[/...
Asteroids S-complex asteroids (Preview)	Astronomy News	0	1064	Apr 23 16:36 2010 by Blobrana
Title: Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the Space Weathering and Gardening rate on S-complex asteroids Authors: Mark Willman, Robert Jedicke, Nicholas Moskovitz, David Nesvorný, David Vokrouhlický, Thais Mothé-Diniz We have extended our earlier work on space weathering of...
Asteroids Four Asteroids named (Preview)	Astronomy News	0	1374	May 5 14:50 2010 by Blobrana
Asteroids named after four Chinese scientists Four asteroids have been named after Chinese scientists Wu Wenjun, Jin Yilian, Wang Yongzhi, and Ye Duzheng at a naming ceremony in Beijing on May 4, 2010. They are the four winners of China's Top National Science and Technology Award (also known as Chi...