2023-09-10 13:24:00
Written by Amira Shehata Sunday, September 10, 2023 04:24 PM A recent report revealed that a metal capsule is expected to land from space in the Utah desert, within a little more than two weeks, which will contain strange materials, including samples collected from the dark surface of a nearby asteroid. From Earth, called Bennu, it is currently relatively close at 75 million miles away, and will shed new light on the formation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago. According to what was reported by the “Metro” website, scientist Tim Gregory shares some facts about asteroids traveling in space. When the solar system formed, it was a giant cloud of gas and dust, like all these beautiful images sent back by Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, and then, about four and a half billion years ago, a little clump of that cloud started collapsing in on itself. As the density of the center of that cloud increased, the strength of its gravitational field increased and increased, and thus the collapse escalated dramatically. Most of that matter, about 99.9% of it, was formed from the Sun. The remains of planets and everything else are formed from moons, comets, and asteroids. Almost all meteorites come from asteroids. They are the remains of rocks from asteroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere. But it is very difficult to determine which particular meteorite came from which particular asteroid. However, sometimes we know exactly where it came from. they came.
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