Tracking a mysterious group of asteroid outcasts
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
High above the plane of our solar system, near the asteroid-rich abyss between Mars and Jupiter, scientists have found a unique family of space rocks. These interplanetary oddballs are the Euphrosyne (pronounced you-FROH-seh-nee) asteroids, and by any measure they have been distant, dark and mysterious—until now.