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Eros's extended family

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  • Richard P. Binzel

    (Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Eros and Ganymed are the two largest asteroids that come close to Earth, 20 and 32 km across,respectively. A study of orbital dynamics hints that they may once have been parts of the sameparent body, a much larger object in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which wasbroken up in a collision and gave rise to the so-called Maria family of asteroids. So when theNEAR space probe explores Eros in 1999, it may be sampling material from a precisely fixedpart of the asteroid belt.

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  • Richard P. Binzel, 1997. "Eros's extended family," Nature, Nature, vol. 388(6642), pages 516-517, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:388:y:1997:i:6642:d:10.1038_41423
    DOI: 10.1038/41423
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