Rosetta's Unique View of an Asteroid Collision

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research use the unique perspective from the Rosetta spacecraft to date impact.



In the first half of February 2009 two asteroids collided in a region of space beyond the orbit of Mars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have now discovered. The researchers were able to pinpoint the exact date of the impact more precisely than ever before. The debris of the crash had attracted the a [...]

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