Researchers believe that the asteroid's pockmarked surface is a result of its unique orbit. Pallas has a tilted orbit, so it is basically smashing through the asteroid belt at an angle, unlike ...

Astronomers have taken the clearest-ever shots of asteroid Pallas. The new images revealed the surface of this tiny world to be heavily dotted with craters, to the point where it’s been dubbed ...

The asteroid Pallas, imaged by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope European Southern Observatory / Vernazza et al., Nature Astronomy, 2020 Astronomers just snapped the best ...

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“Pallas experiences two to three times more collisions than Ceres or Vesta, and its tilted orbit is a straightforward explanation for the very weird surface that we don’t see on either of the ...

Astronomers have taken stunning new images of a golf ball-shaped asteroid called Pallas zipping through the asteroid belt. The mottled celestial body has the most cratered surface in the solar ...

Pallas was the second asteroid discovered and it is among the largest found in our Solar System. The celestial body has a radius of around 169 miles; it is only slightly less massive than the ...

Pallas, at 318 miles (512 kilometers) in diameter, is the third-largest asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, accounting for about 7% of the region's mass.When Pallas was ...

Pallas is a typical rocky asteroid, quite dark in surface colour, resembling a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. Vesta, on the other hand, is highly reflective, the only asteroid sometimes visible ...

Feb 11, 2020: Study reveals details of 'golf ball asteroid' (Nanowerk News) Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have observed an asteroid so heavily ...

3200 Phaethon, the bizarre rock responsible for the Geminid meteor shower, may be more than just a member of the Pallas family. Instead, it could be a chunk of asteroid Pallas itself.

Pallas was discovered in 1802 by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, best known for stating Olbers' paradox: the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and ...