Sentences with phrase «most rocky asteroids»
Most rocky asteroids orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter, and they probably respond very differently to changes in the mass of Jupiter.
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Most of the proposed defense methods would require careful study of an asteroid's composition — you might simply create a rocky doughnut by trying to blast one apart.
Although most asteroids now are rocky through and through, the new findings suggest that back at the beginning of the solar system even planetesimals could melt at their cores and retain a rocky crust.
The interior of Vesta, unlike that of most asteroids, separated into layers resembling a planet's, with a rocky crust covering a mantle composed of the mineral olivine.
Most asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in a «Main Asteroid Belt» that is centered around 2.7 times the Earth - Sun distance (astronomical unit or AU) from Sol.