Scientists say asteroid ‘Vesta’ might be a piece of a planet that no longer exists

Scientists say asteroid ‘Vesta’ might be a piece of a planet that no longer exists

Asteroid Vesta, long considered to be a stalled protoplanet, may actually be just a fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New research suggests that Vesta may not have the dense core that differentiated planetary bodies usually have. Due to spin-rate data and gravity-field mapping, a new study by Michigan […]

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