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The Asteroid Belt x-post from rgifs

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Asteroid Gaspra a km-wide asteroid that rotates once every six hours Because of its irregular shape gravity is very uneven across the surface Captured by the Galileo spacecraft during its flyby in

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The snowman craters of Vesta the second-largest asteroid in our Solar System

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One of the last images Dawn obtained of the giant asteroid Vesta

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Ion Thruster Sets World Record It has a fuel efficiency that is - times greater than a chemical thruster and has been operated for over hours This will allow it to perform extended tours of multi-asteroids comets and outer planets and their moons

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Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Today Has Moon Asteroid BL

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The orbits of the over known potentially hazardous asteroids PHAs These are over meters across amp will pass within million km of Earth CreditNASAJPL-Caltech

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Asteroid Vesta It is the brightest most visible dwarf planet from earth Notice one side is heavily created the other side not so Notice too the stretch marks at the top believed to be caused by a massive impact NASAx

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EarthampMoon left and the asteroid Bennu right Taken by OSIRIS-REx spacecraft away million miles million kilometers from Earth and miles km from Bennu Credit NASAGoddardUniversity of ArizonaLockheed Martin Space

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The binary asteroids P situated in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter also behaves like a comet Thats due to water sublimation caused by the heat of the Sun

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Asteroid Bennu composite imaged by Osiris-Rex on approach

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Geminid meteor shower over Mt Balang in China photo by Alvin Wu The bright fireball streaking across the lower right was caused by a pebble that intersected the protective atmosphere of Earth originally expelled by the asteroid-like object Phaethon

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Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

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