Mysterious meteoroid-spitting asteroid found in Solar System
Words by Rafi Letzter
There’s a giant asteroid somewhere out in the Solar System, and it hurled a big rock at Earth. The evidence for this mystery space rock comes from a diamond-studded meteor that exploded over Sudan in 2008. NASA spotted the meteor heading towards the planet well before impact, and researchers showed up in the Sudanese desert to collect an unusually rich haul of remains. New research of one of those meteorites suggests that the meteor may have broken off a giant asteroid – one more or less the size of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.