Romanian researchers contribute to study of 40,000 minor objects in Solar System

An international team of astronomers, including researchers with the Romanian Academy's Astronomical Institute of Bucharest, used the data obtained by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) of the European Southern Observatory to catalogue 40,000 minor planets of the Solar System, informs a Romanian Space Agency release sent on Monday. These minor planets with sizes between a few metres and 1,000 kilometers orbit the Sun. Their ...

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