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Although we are no longer threatened by earth-Orbit asteroids, occasionally an asteroid from what is called the main-belt asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter still can impact the earth and moon.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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Although we are no longer threatened by earth-Orbit asteroids, occasionally an asteroid from what is called the main-belt asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter still can impact the earth and moon.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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As such, they claim, "theoretical models producing the lunar cataclysm by gravitational ejection of main-belt asteroids are seriously challenged."
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Other main-belt asteroids are already named for science fiction luminaries Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
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See also: entry for main-belt asteroid 6980 Kyusakamoto in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Small-Body Database.
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Other main-belt asteroids are already named for science fiction luminaries Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
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And then similarly in the near asteroids, and eventually the main-belt asteroids.
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And then similarly in the near asteroids, and eventually the main-belt asteroids.
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"Investigation of the chemical and isotopic composition of main-belt asteroid ice by either ground-based telescopes or spacecraft will allow comparison with terrestrial water, yielding a bounty of insights into this ancient water source," he notes in a commentary accompanying the articles published by the Campins group and Rivkin and Emery in same issue of
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Flora is a large, bright main-belt asteroid of 125 km size.
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