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Doris Elín Urrutia

“Rubble pile” asteroids may be surprisingly hard to destroy — study


Asteroids come in a broad range of sizes and sorts. Some, like Psyche, are rich in metal and likely cores from bygone planetesimals. Others are like Vesta, hefty round bodies covered with craters and troughs. But then, there are space rocks like Itokawa.

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