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How a New Methodology Rewrites the Age Book for Asteroids


Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new method for estimating the age of asteroids using dynamics, demonstrating this approach on the asteroid Selam, found to be around 2-3 million years old. An asteroid discovered last November is in fact a solar system toddler – just 2-3 million

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