Huge Asteroid Impact Formed "Rubble Pile" Space Rock

Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 15:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A Frankenstein's monster, the asteroid Itokawa is made from parts of a space rock that broke up in a cataclysmic impact, a new study says.

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