The discovery is an example of progress in global efforts to characterize potentially hazardous asteroids and shows planetary defense programs at work.
Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have obtained new and more detailed images of 42 of the largest asteroids in the main asteroid belt.
Asteroids in our Solar System are very common as there are an estimated 1.1 to 1.9 million of them that have a diameter larger than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – there are millions more smaller asteroids. And now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very. Read more »
The team behind the new study, led by Laboratoire d Astrophysique de Marseille in France, say it is helping astronomers trace the origins of solar system asteroids.