In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Mariah Jones and her collaborators used data from the South Pole Telescope to constrain the thermal properties of an asteroid!
Ancient rogue planet could explain why sednoids in our Solar System follow such unusual, distant orbits.
How to look into the interiors of asteroids? Tidal interactions during close encounters with Earth might just work!
What happens when you combine deep learning, citizen science, and decades of Hubble images? You discover thousands of new asteroids!
Initial results from Hayabusa 2’s trip to the asteroid Ryugu!
(22) Kalliope and its large moon Linus were thought to be traveling through the solar system as a lone pair with no further asteroid family to accompany them. This seems strange, as Linus was most likely created by a giant impact which would have to leave other fragments. Today’s authors are convinced they found the family belonging to Kalliope and the reason it hasn’t been identified sooner.