MIT Scientists Claim Rogue Asteroids Are More Common Than Once ThoughtRedOrbitScientists from MIT and the Paris Observatory claim that rogue asteroids are more common than previously thought. Previously, scientists believed that asteroids were static and remained near the sun. However,…
Asteroid Belt Once Shaken Like a Cosmic Snow Globe: CfA Says – Nature World News
Nature World News Asteroid Belt Once Shaken Like a Cosmic Snow Globe: CfA SaysNature World NewsJupiter may have once been as close to the Sun as Mars is now, and as it migrated through the main asteroid belt to its…
Astronomers say 'rogue' asteroids often found where they don't belong – UPI.com
Astronomers say ‘rogue’ asteroids often found where they don’t belongUPI.comBut in the last decade, asteroids that appear to have formed in warmer environments — that is, closer to the sun — have been found further out in the solar system,…
'Rogue Asteroids' Suggest Jupiter Once Migrated Much Closer To The Sun – Headlines & Global News
Headlines & Global News ‘Rogue Asteroids‘ Suggest Jupiter Once Migrated Much Closer To The SunHeadlines & Global NewsIn the 1980s researchers believed asteroids that were formed near the Sun remained there, and the same for those that formed farther away,…
Asteroid diversity points to a 'snow globe' solar system – Science Codex
Science Codex Asteroid diversity points to a ‘snow globe’ solar systemScience Codex“We found that the giant planets shook up the asteroids like flakes in a snow globe,” says lead author Francesca DeMeo, a Hubble postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center…
Asteroids Scarred by Solar System's Violent Youth – Discovery News
Space.com Asteroids Scarred by Solar System’s Violent YouthDiscovery NewsArtist’s impression of Jupiter’s migration through the solar system, sweeping asteroids out of stable orbits, sending them careening into one another. As the gas giant planets migrated, they stirred the contents of…