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28 April 2021 Fragment of asteroid 2018 LA recovered in Central Kalahari Game Reserve in central Botswana. (Image credit: SETI institute) A small asteroid barreled through the sky and burned up over the Kalahari Desert of Botswana in the summer of 2018 and now, scientists suspect that the space rock originated from Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the The small asteroid, named 2018 LA, was first observed through a telescope at the University of Arizonas Catalina Sky Survey and looked lik...

26 April 2021 Fragment of asteroid 2018 LA recovered in Central Kalahari Game Reserve in central Botswana. (Image credit: SETI Institute) A small asteroid barreled through the sky and burned up over the Kalahari Desert of Botswana in the summer of 2018 and now, scientists suspect that the space rock originated from Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the The small asteroid, named 2018 LA, was first observed through a telescope at the University of Arizonas Catalina Sky Survey and looked lik...

Date Time Scientists retrace asteroid’s long one-way trip to Earth An international team of scientists has reconstructed the 22-million-year journey of an asteroid through the Solar System to its impact on Earth. The research on the flight path of the asteroid, which landed in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana on 2 June 2018, is the first time that scientists have precisely mapped a meteorite’s voyage to Earth. The breakthrough offers new insights into the Solar System’s ancient past, incl...