Such strange planetoids.
Experience the full log at https://auriscenes.com/log/281
Such strange planetoids.
Experience the full log at https://auriscenes.com/log/281
Between Mars and Jupiter are numerous #asteroids, including Vista, the second largest, which the #Dawn probe “visited” some fifteen years ago.
Dawn's Doppler tracking via the Deep Space Network and onboard imaging data have enabled us to estimate the moment of inertia of the #planetoid and deduce its “weak” internal stratification: a crust composed of magmatic rocks surrounds the mantle, which surmounts a small central core. But how did it form?
Find out below: https://www.irap.omp.eu/2025/06/mission-dawn-deux-hypotheses-sur-lorigine-de-lasteroide-vesta/
Bizarre #Triple #Planetoid Discovered in #Kuiper Belt Hints at a New #Mystery - YouTube #Science #SciComm #Astronomy by #AntonPetrov #WhatDaMath .