European astronomers using it telescope James Webb discovered a small asteroids 100 to 200 meters in diameter, but which is about the size of Colosseum of Rome.
The discovery was made by a team of astronomers from Germany (McPlanck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), Spain (Universities of Alicante and Barcelona), Italy (ESA NEO Coordination Center) and Poland (A. Mickiewicz University), who made a relevant publication in journal of astronomy and astrophysics “Astronomy & Astrophysics».
As the research reports, our solar system is teeming with asteroids of various sizes. To date, astronomers know of over 1.1 million rocky remnants from the early days of our solar system.
The new asteroid it is the smallest found by Webb so far and one of the smallest generally detected in the Mars-Jupiter belt. This donut-shaped belt contains the majority of asteroids.
Source: News Beast
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