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Until 2001, most basaltic bodies discovered in the asteroid belt were believed to originate from the asteroid Vesta (hence their name V-type), but the discovery of the asteroid 1459 Magnya revealed a slightly different chemical composition from the other basaltic asteroids discovered until then, suggesting a different origin. [80]
Olbers commenced his search in 1802, and on 29 March 1807 he discovered Vesta in the constellation Virgo—a coincidence, because Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta are not fragments of a larger body. Because the asteroid Juno had been discovered in 1804, this made Vesta the fourth object to be identified in the region that is now known as the asteroid belt.
21 Lutetia is a large M-type asteroid in the main asteroid belt.It measures about 100 kilometers in diameter (120 km along its major axis). It was discovered in 1852 by Hermann Goldschmidt, and is named after Lutetia, the Latin name of Paris.
Another 8% of the Earth meteorites can be traced to the Flora and Nysa asteroid families in the main asteroid belt, the research found. And about 6% of the meteorites can be traced to Vesta, it ...
First asteroid discovered by means of astrophotography rather than visual observation 433 Eros: 13×13×33: August 13, 1898: First near-Earth asteroid discovered and the second largest; first asteroid to be detected by radar; first asteroid orbited and landed upon 482 Petrina: 23.3: March 3, 1902: First asteroid named after dog 490 Veritas: 115 ...
Juno (minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt.Juno was the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer Karl Harding. [15] It is tied with three other asteroids as the thirteenth largest asteroid, and it is one of the two largest stony asteroids, along with 15 Eunomia.
The object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt. ... moon — described Arjuna as "a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow orbits very similar ... discovered the asteroid, dubbed ...
The impactor likely formed in the outer solar system before migrating to the asteroid belt. A team of researchers think they know the origin of a massive space rock that hit Earth and killed off ...