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Almahata Sitta Meteorites Came from Ceres-Sized Asteroid, Study Shows | Planetary Science, Space Exploration – Sci-News.com
The parent body of the Almahata Sitta (AhS) meteorites — space rocks that rained down on the Nubian Desert in Sudan in 2008 — is a 640 to 1,800 km-wide water-rich…
The parent body of the Almahata Sitta meteorites — space rocks that rained down on the Nubian Desert in Sudan in 2008 — is a 640 to 1,800 km-wide water-rich asteroid that is as yet unknown, according to new research.
Hamilton et al. studied the composition of Almahata Sitta 202 to determine that it likely originated from a previously unknown parent asteroid. Image credit: Hamilton et al., doi: 10.1038/s41550-020-01274-z.
In October 2008, a 4.1-m-diameter fragment of a carbonaceous chondrite asteroid…
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