Asteroids with low albedo (the amount of light reflected by the surface) preserve a record of planetesimals, their formation and evolution, and the conditions of the solar nebula at some […]
Primitive astromaterials (i.e., primitive meteorites, interplanetary dust particles, and micrometeorites) preserve the only surviving samples of the fundamental building blocks of our solar system, thus providing a unique window into […]
The Main Belt: A Gateway to the Formation and Early Evolution of the Solar System Workshop, Sardinia, Italy | June 4-7, 2019 The Main Asteroid Belt is at the boundary […]
The Main Asteroid Belt is at the boundary of the inner and outer Solar System. It marks a transition region from the rocky volatile-poor inner terrestrial planets to the outer […]
First Announcement Available Now The workshop on Vesta in the Light of Dawn: First Exploration of a Protoplanet in the Asteroid Belt will be held February 3–5, 2014, at the Lunar […]