NASA Finds Seven More Mysterious ‘Dark Comets’ — What To Know
A new category of space rock called “dark comets” are proving more common than previously thought, with 14 asteroid-comet ...
‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Zoom By Earth Tonight—But NASA Says It’s Safe: What To Know
Asteroid 2013 FW13 is expected to pass by Earth ... according to a 2023 paper published in Icarus. September’s full ...
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An Asteroid’s Destruction May Have Given Mars Rings, Then Moons
A study published Wednesday in the journal Icarus makes a case that the moons did indeed start out in asteroid form. But it’s not the genesis everyone was expecting. Using supercomputer-powered ...
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Making Mars's moons: Supercomputers offer 'disruptive' new explanation
More information: Jacob A. Kegerreis et al, Origin of Mars's moons by disruptive partial capture of an asteroid, Icarus (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116337 ...
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Astronomers discover an asteroid that's closer to the Sun than any other
They do — but only for a very small fraction of their entire orbit. For instance, Icarus — the first asteroid to ever be observed by radar — comes closer to the Sun than even Mercury ...
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‘Dark Comets’ Could Have Delivered Much Of Earth's Water
A University of Michigan-led study published in the journal Icarus makes the case that a ... and organics in the inner Main Asteroid Belt than previously known, says Taylor. Even though their ...
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Mars Ripped an Asteroid Apart and Kept the Pieces for Itself to Use as Moons
The results were published in the Icarus journal earlier this month ... First, if this theory is true it means a single, not necessarily big asteroid could give birth to several moons, in ...
NASA finds seven new dark comets that might have brought life to Earth
Astronomers unveiled the discovery of seven new 'dark comets' that they believe could be the mechanism by which water enters ...