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Center for Microgravity Research

  • Search
  • Home
  • About
    • The Lab
    • The People
      • Faculty and Staff
      • Students
      • Former Students
  • Research
    • Planetary Rings
    • Planetesimal Formation
    • Small Bodies
  • Flight Projects
    • COLLIDE
      • COLLIDE 2
      • COLLIDE 3
    • NanoRocks on NanoRacks
    • Strata-1
    • CATE
    • Q-PACE
    • CORE
    • PRIME
      • PRIME Photos
      • PRIME Results and Video Links
    • USIP-SLOPE
      • USIP Team Biographies
      • USIP Gallery
  • Ground Experiments
    • COBRA
    • CODA
    • ICE
    • SLIM
    • BEADS
    • TRACE
  • News
  • Walkabout the Galaxy Podcast

Planetary Rings

Planetary rings, like those of Saturn, are made up of countless particles ranging in size from micron-sized dust up to miniature moons tens of meters across. These particles collide frequently, but at ...

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Planetesimal Formation

Planetesimals are the building blocks of planets. Asteroids and comets are leftover planetesimals from the time of formation of our own solar system. The formation of km-sized or larger planetesimals remains ...

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Small Bodies

Asteroids, Comets, and Small Moons Asteroids are the rocky leftovers from the formation of the solar system. The largest asteroid, Ceres, and a few others, are dwarf planets, but the overwhelming majority ...

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