Dr. Beth Ellen Clark Joseph of the Department of Physics at Ithaca College was recently invited to review several articles for Nature and write a News & Views article for publication in the November 2012 issue. Dr. Beth Ellen Clark Joseph of the Department of Physics at Ithaca College was recently invited to review several articles for Nature and write a News & Views article for publication in the November 2012 issue.
The article reviews results from NASA’s Dawn mission to asteroid 4 Vesta that suggest that some of the ageing effects on asteroid surfaces may be caused by an interplanetary rain of carbon-rich Solar System debris. These findings have implications for all remote-sensing studies of asteroid surfaces, and corroborate stratospheric studies that have found carbon-rich material in Earth’s upper atmosphere, presumably from the same rain of rich Solar System debris.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20121102093106752