NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt

NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt

Dec 20, 2024

NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.  A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb’s observations of a distant star to reveal a population of small asteroids — smaller than astronomers had ever detected orbiting the Sun in the main

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