https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/was-the-chicxulub-bolide-65-million-years-ago-an-asteroid-from-beyond-jupiter/ Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/was-the-chicxulub-bolide-65-million-years-ago-an-asteroid-from-beyond-jupiter/#comment-1510618 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:07:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107562#comment-1510618 But KT was known for having Iridium–s platinum group metal…

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/was-the-chicxulub-bolide-65-million-years-ago-an-asteroid-from-beyond-jupiter/#comment-1510512 Sat, 17 Aug 2024 01:17:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107562#comment-1510512 Some of the Jovian Trojan asteroids certainly fit the size criteria (624 Hektor @ 250 km diameter). Estimates are around one million Jovian Trojan asteroids plus. As for C-types out there, that’s an unknown.
Lucky for us, they are pretty stable (famous last words) in their orbits ahead of and behind Jupiter.
Too bad the ESA JUICE probe got redirected last December away from it’s planned flyby of 223 Rosa in Oct. 2029 (short on fuel). It is believed to be a C and P-type (carbonaceous and silicate/water/ice). If it turns out to be the case, I’d be asking, “Who’s your daddy?”

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