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  • 2023 CX1 is the only L-chondrite-like asteroid analysed from space to ground. It catastrophically fragmented in the atmosphere, depositing 98% of its energy in one burst—an unusual, high-risk fragmentation mode with implications for planetary defence.

    • Auriane Egal
    • Denis Vida
    • Peter Jenniskens
    Research
    Nature Astronomy
    P: 1-14
  • Telescopic measurements of asteroids' colours rarely match laboratory reflectance spectra of meteorites owing to a 'space weathering' process that rapidly reddens asteroid surfaces. 'Unweathered' asteroids, however, with spectra matching ordinary chondrite meteorites, are seen only among small bodies with orbits that cross inside the orbits of Mars and Earth. Such unweathered asteroids are now shown to have experienced orbital intersections closer than the Earth–Moon distance within the past half-million years.

    • Richard P. Binzel
    • Alessandro Morbidelli
    • Alan T. Tokunaga
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 463, P: 331-334
  • High-resolution observations of the third largest asteroid, (2) Pallas, from SPHERE unveil a heavily cratered surface, probably due to Pallas’s inclined and eccentric orbit, a density almost equal to carbonaceous chondrites and hint at surficial salt-enriched spots.

    • Michaël Marsset
    • Miroslav Brož
    • Bin Yang
    Research
    Nature Astronomy
    Volume: 4, P: 569-576