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Don't show me this message again✕ Our solar system appears to be home to a huge and unknown dwarf planet-sized asteroid, according to a new study. A small shard of meteorite that arrived on Earth in 2008 appears to have come from the asteroid, according to researchers who have studied the sample. The parent asteroid appears to be roughly the size of Ceres, the dwarf planet is the biggest object in the asteroid belt, the researchers say. It also appears to have been formed around water and under some pressure, they found. Meteors and meteorites can provide a key way of understanding more abo...

Mystery behind diamond-studded meteorite that hit Sudan in 2008 revealed A sample of 50 grams analysed by a team under an infrared microscope has found that the meteorite had a unique mineral makeup, including 'amphibole' which requires prolonged exposure to water in order to develop. Updated: December 29, 2020 9:05:00 am This false-colour microscope image of a meteorite sample collected in Sudan shows amphibole crystals, a unique feature, highlighted in orange. (Image: Courtesy of NASA/USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute ) The mystery behind a diamond-stud...

Highlights The incident took place in Sudan. The meteorite was part of a giant asteroid. Researchers at Southwest Research Institute based in Texas, US, have claimed that they have succeeded in revealing the mystery behind a diamond-studded meteorite that exploded over Sudan in 2008. According to researchers, the meteorite was part of a giant asteroid, which was the same size as the dwarf planet Ceres.  The meteorite was first spotted by NASA and according to NASA before impact the celestial body was 13 foot in diameter. It weighed 8,200 kg. Later a team of researchers analysed 50 grams of m...

Mysterious giant asteroid is lurking in solar system and it hurled a big meteor at earth, study finds Scientists revealed that this meteor broke off a parent asteroid that had never hurled rocks at the earth Will humans go extinct? The solar system in which the earth resides is not a calm place, as there are several asteroids lurking everywhere that could result in a potential collision with other space bodies. It was one such asteroid that hit the earth around 66 million years ago, resulting in the extinction of dinosaurs. Now, scientists have detected a mysterious giant asteroid that is lur...

There are asteroids that are relatively small, but there are also massive space rocks that could cause a lot of damage in a collision. Scientists may have found a new type of asteroid in their recent study. Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute believe that they have now found a new classification of an asteroid or a new type of meteorite parent asteroid. Their conclusion was based on the analysis they made on a sample of space debris known as Almaha Sitta or AhS that fell to Earth 12 years ago. They found the parent body from which AhS came from was an asteroid around the same si...