Mystery of disappearing asteroids solved. by University of Hawaii at Manoa's Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, February 17, 2016 http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/02/mystery-of-disappearing-asteroids-solved http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/disintegrating_asteroids/
A new study finds that most asteroids and comets are destroyed in a drawn out, long hot fizzle, much farther from the Sun than previously thought." The paper is: Granvik, M., A. Morbidelli, R. Jedicke, B. Bolin, W. F. Bottke, E. Beshore, D. Vokrouhlický, M. Delbo, and P/ Michel, 2016. Super-catastrophic disruption of asteroids at small perihelion distances. Nature. vol. 530, no. 7590, pp. 303–306 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v530/n7590/full/nature16934.html Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
