Thousands of meteorites have been recovered on Earth following a hectic journey through space.
The source of the remaining rocks, however, was a mystery.
NASA Smashed Into an Asteroid in 2022.
Asteroid Bennu was traced back to the Polana family.NASA
Younger asteroid families tend to have many smaller fragments left over from the collisions that caused their breakup.
The collisional cascade inside these families is still active, Marsset said.
Thats why theyre dominating this production of meteorites.
Meteorites are tiny, rocky clues to mysteries of the solar system that happen to end up on Earth.
This ultimately is the goal of this kind of study.
This is what we want to learn.
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