Science
Scientists retrace asteroid’s long one-way trip to Earth – Science at ANU
An international team of scientists has reconstructed the 22-million-year journey of an asteroid through the Solar System to its impact on Earth.
An international team of scientists has reconstructed the 22-million-year journey of an asteroid through the Solar System to its impact on Earth.
The research on the flight path of the asteroid, which landed in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana on 2 June 2018, is the first time that scientists have precisely mapped a meteorite’s voyage to Earth.
The breakthrough offers new insights into the Solar System’s ancient past, including a better understanding of its second-largest asteroid and the only…
Continue Reading
