SwRI-led team finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
E-Mail IMAGE: SwRI scientists studied the composition of a small shard of a meteoroid to determine that it likely originated from a previously unknown parent asteroid. This false-color micrograph of the meteoroid... view more Credit: NASA/USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Dec. 21, 2020 -- A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a small shard of a meteorite that arrived on Earth a dozen years ago. The composition of a piece of the meteorite Almahata Sitta (AhS) indicates that its pa...