"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Knowing from what debris field in the asteroid belt our meteorites originate ... cartographers who traced the outline of ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid ... This cosmic-ray exposure age of the meteorites proves to match the dynamical age of some of the asteroid debris fields. Scientists ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...

The asteroid belt contains debris fields known as clusters ... While this provides one of the most comprehensive maps of the asteroid belt to date, not all meteorites in the database were assigned, ...

NASA describes the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," but it poses no threat to Earth Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined PEOPLE in 2021 ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt ... of the meteorites proves to match the dynamical age of some of the asteroid debris fields. Scientists determine the dynamical age of debris fields by ...

Knowing from what debris field in the asteroid belt our meteorites originate is important ... "Like the first cartographers who traced the outline of Australia, our map reveals a continent of ...