Sunlight Exposes Divorcees When Asteroids Split Up

 

Sunlight Exposes Divorcees When Asteroids Split Up
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:39:00 -0500

A new study depicts the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter not as a dull zone of dead rocks with an occasional wayward speedster smashing through on its way toward the sun, but as one of slow but steady change, where sunlight gradually drives asteroids to split in two and separate to become independent asteroids among the millions orbiting the sun. 

Full story at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/08/25_divorced_asteroids.shtml
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University of California, Berkeley

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