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5 days ago · The Asteroid Belt is a fascinating region of our solar system located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It's filled with rocky remnants from the early solar system. Here are some intriguing facts about this cosmic neighborhood.
2 days ago · Asteroid mining is the hypothetical extraction of materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects. Notable asteroid mining challenges include the high cost of spaceflight, unreliable identification of asteroids which are suitable for mining, and the challenges of extracting usable material in a space environment.
1 day ago · Phobos ( / ˈfoʊbəs /; systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, [10] the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall. It is named after Phobos, the Greek god of fear and panic, who is the son of Ares (Mars) and twin brother of Deimos .
3 days ago · Dinkinesh and Selam. There are millions of asteroids orbiting in the Solar System. And some of them do have a strange configuration. A recent example of one of them was discovered when Lucy (NASA’s Trojan asteroid mission) passed by main belt asteroids called Dinkinesh.
1 day ago · A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU).
3 days ago · While all main-belt asteroids with a diameter above 10 km (6.2 mi) have already been discovered, there might be as many as 10 trillion 1 m (3.3 ft)-sized asteroids or larger out to the orbit of Jupiter; and more than a trillion minor planets in the Kuiper belt.
