asteroid

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In a classic episode, Elroy goes to an asteroid on a school field trip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

"Large impact basins or craters excavate deep into the asteroid, which gives clues about what its interior is made of," said Namya Baijal, a doctoral candidate at the LPL and first author of the paper.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

"We can't get to the cores of Earth or Mars or Venus, but maybe we can get to the core of an early asteroid."

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

More than two centuries after asteroid 16 Psyche was first identified, scientists are still trying to determine how it formed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

It is really only in the last few years that astronomers have begun to count and keep an eye on the rest of the asteroid community.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson