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The asteroid belt is slowly vanishing, shedding dust and rocks
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The asteroid belt is slowly vanishing, shedding dust and rocks
Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad de la República illustrates how quickly it’s losing mass and what it means for Earth’s long cosmic crash history. A Quiet but Steady Disappearance Fernández’s research estimates the cost at about 8.8 × 10⁻⁵ of its own weight per million years, for …
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