Nudging asteroid fragments toward Earth New computer simulations detail how fragments of asteroids travel to Earth and rain down as meteorites. The long trip to Earth. Vokrouhlicky, D., and P. Farinella. Efficient delivery of meteorites to the Earth from a wide range of asteroid parent bodies.
Deep encounter reveals asteroid's ancestry.
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