Recent studies found that the largest asteroid in the Milky Way system is being developed into a larger real planet.
Some researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), made this conclusion after using the Hubble Space Telescope to study the Pallas, the second largest asteroid in the Milky Way System, said the study published in the journal Science, published in October.
Pallas, whose name was taken from a Greek goddess, Pallas Athena, was in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.
According to the theory of planet formation, planetary prototype is a cloud of gas particles, stones, and dust that are in the process of forming a single planet. Prototype was on track a little planet each other’s orbit, resulting in conflict and gradually form a true planet.
“It’s very exciting to see one object of this new perspective is very interesting and has not been observed by the Hubble’s high resolution,” said UCLA doctoral level student Britney E Schmidt, lead author of the study.
“We estimate, a huge asteroid is not just to block the planet was formed, but as an opportunity to study planet formation frozen in time.”
With the Hubble images, Schmidt said he and his colleagues can make a new measurement of the shape and size of Pallas. They can see the surface has dark and bright areas, which shows a rich body of water may have undergone internal changes in the same way passed by the planet.
“That’s what makes it more like a planet – a round shape and color variation is very important as far as we understand it, is a dynamic object or objects that have had the exact same size since formed,” said Schmidt. “We thought maybe it is a dynamic object.”
For the first time, Schmidt said, he and his colleagues also saw the big crash at Pallas. They can not be sure whether it is a crater, but her depression did show something else important: that it can bring to small family Pallas asteroids that orbit in space.
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