Missing Asteroid Mystery Mitigated

01 March 2009

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There are asteroids missing from the belt between Mars and Jupiter, and now researchers think they were shoved out of place by two of our solar system's gas giants - Jupiter and Saturn, as they assumed their current orbit some 4 billion years ago.

So the missing pieces of our asteroid belt can help us to fill in some of the missing pieces of the history of our solar system!

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