Asteroid hit Earth 2018, and now we know where origin

When a piece of space makes it on the surface of the earth there is always a question about the place of origin. Scientists become smart enough to be able to track the source of various space debris based on stone makeup and the position of the earth and the direction of the stone traveling through the room when meeting our planet. In 2018, the asteroid traced through the room produced debris that had an impact on the earth in Botswana in South Africa. After the stone was found, the researchers started the task of tracking its origins, and a new paper published in meteoriteics and planet science gave their conclusions.

According to scientists, asteroids likely to come from large asteroids supervised by astronomers to lit for some time. Rock Space is known as Vesta, and it is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. Vesta History is cloudy in mystery, but is believed that the impact on the asteroid surface creates a lot of debris and seems like one of the pieces found the road to the earth.

The piece of asteroid that landed in Botswana was relatively small. Asteroids that gave birth to them appeared as a flash of light in a sky survey conducted by the University of Arizona, and when reaching the earth was fragmented and the debris fell in the middle rational game backup. Canvas Area Researchers and found a total of 23 meteorites.

“Combining small asteroid observations in space with information obtained from meteorites shows the possibility of originating from Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our solar system and the target of Fajar NASA’s mission,” Peter Jennisens said, the leader said in a statement. “Billions of years ago, two giant impacts on Vesta created a larger and more dangerous asteroid family. The newly restored meteorite gave us a clue about when the impact might occur.”

Tracking debris is a challenge because observations are only made shortly before the stone reaches the earth. After doing so, scientists had to hunt down video recordings that offered them instructions about where the rubble landed.

After the sample was found, the task of studying rocky material began. After a long investigation that helped old stone and narrowed his origin, the researchers finally arrived at the conclusion that it came from the impact with Vesta. In addition, the debris was believed to have been peeled off by Vesta during the impact with another body about 22 million years ago.

Tracking science of asteroid sources has grown with leaps and limits in recent years. It is extraordinary to think that researchers can truly track where the space of the room comes after it is about the earth. The types of research projects help us learn more about our solar system and all material in it, and can open the new research on the asteroid formation.