2014/08/12 by Francesca DeMeo, Benoit Carry · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.EP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/nature12908
published as Nature, Volume 505, Issue 7485, pp. 629-634 (2014)
arxiv created 2014/08/12 · arxiv updated 2014/08/13
Advances in the discovery and characterization of asteroids over the past decade have revealed an unanticipated underlying structure that points to a dramatic early history of the inner Solar System. The asteroids in the main asteroid belt have been discovered to be more compositionally diverse with size and distance from the Sun than had previously been known. This implies substantial mixing through processes such as planetary migration and the subsequent dynamical processes.