Gaia space telescope rocks the science of asteroids - EurekAlert

The European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed data for almost two billion objects in the Milky Way galaxy and the surrounding cosmos. The Gaia Data Release 3 on Monday revolutionizes our knowledge of the S…
image: Mass estimate for main-belt asteroid (445) Edna based on ground-based astrometry (blue), Gaia DR2 astrometry (red), and their combination (green). The combination of ground-based and Gaia data… [+9791 chars] Read More