Asteroid belt mystery

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 13:21 in Astronomy & Space

The main asteroid belt may have been restructured by the giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, as they migrated to their present orbits around 4 billion years ago, a new study by scientists of the University of Arizona suggests. It is published in the most recent issue of the prestigious journal Nature (25 February 2009)...

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