asteroid

Asteroid Phaeton does not have a dust tail

Asteroid (3200) Phaeton near the sun (illustration). © NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminids are not caused by a comet, but by the asteroid...

Asteroid turns out to have no less than three(!) moons

It makes Elektra the first quadruple asteroid system discovered to date. Exactly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, we find the so-called asteroid...

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