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Also includes the asteroid belt (the white donut-shaped cloud), the Hildas (the orange "triangle" just inside the orbit of Jupiter), the Jupiter trojans (green), and the near-Earth asteroids. The group that leads Jupiter are called the "Greeks" and the trailing group are called the "Trojans" (Murray and Dermott, Solar System Dynamics , pg. 107)
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NASA has released the following images of a large asteroid as it readies to pass by alarmingly close to Earth on April 19. The administration has been monitoring the space rock, known as 2014 JO25 ...
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In the main asteroid belt, there appear to be two primary populations of asteroid: a dark, volatile-rich population, consisting of the C-type and P-type asteroids, with albedos less than 0.10 and densities under 2.2 g/cm 3, and a dense, volatile-poor population, consisting of the S-type and M-type asteroids, with albedos over 0.15 and densities ...
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A fireball blazed over the southern United Kingdom and northern France in the pre-dawn hours Monday, flickering brighter than the full moon and putting on a stunning display in the cloud-free sky.