Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark comets’ in disguise
21 March 2023
Some asteroids appear to accelerate in ways that can’t be accounted for by gravity, suggesting they might be firing out invisible jets of gas - like those of comets
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Weird hybrid meteorite may be evidence of a chaotic early solar system
27 September 2021
Jupiter’s early orbit had a wobble that may have flung asteroids from the inner and outer solar system into each other, creating hybrid rocks such as the Nedagolla meteorite that fell in India in 1870
We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system
23 April 2020
A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the solar system may have come here from a different star system
‘Grazing fireball’ skimmed Earth's atmosphere then went back to space
13 December 2019
A space rock seen in July 2017 passed through Earth's atmosphere and back out the other side in a rare event known as a grazing fireball
We can send a probe to interstellar comet Borisov – but not until 2030
6 October 2019
Astronomers are racing to learn about only the second interstellar object ever seen. We now know it contains cyanide gas – and we could send a probe to visit it
