Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids
All about Meteorites Comets Asteroids: Meteorite: Stony, iron, stony-iron metal meteoroid or asteroid metal, Cryovolcanism Shape Dwarf Planet Ceres, Asteroid’s Characteristics, planetary shake-up, asteroid Itokawa, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, Meteorite bombardment. Asteroid asteroids facts size belt types, answers to questions like: How are asteroids formed? Where are asteroids found? What are asteroids made of? Comets Interesting facts, famous names of comets, halley’s comet, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud frozen ammonia, methane or water, dirty snowballs and questions like: What are comets made of? Where do comets come from? How big are comets?
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Aug 6, 2018Before NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet hunter sent back a stunning sequence of serendipitous images showing the motion of a comet. -
Aug 2, 2018Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. -
Jul 23, 2018NASA’s Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Green, speaks to Dr Lindley Johnson, whose role as NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer is to help protect Earth from asteroid impacts. -
Jul 1, 2018The interstellar object 'Oumuamua perplexed scientists in October 2017 as it whipped past Earth at an unusually high speed. -
Jun 14, 2018A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high concentrations on the dwarf planet’s surface. -
May 21, 2018The asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter's orbit, is the first known asteroid to have been captured from another star system. -
May 14, 2018A fleet of spacecraft heading to the small bodies of the Solar System could help further our understanding of the planets. -
Apr 11, 2018A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped object that entered our Solar System late last year. -
Mar 29, 2018More samples from comet dust particles are needed. -
Mar 27, 2018The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named ‘Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems.
