https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-the-hunt-for-a-missing-planet-revealed-asteroids-in-our-solar-system
Following a hunch that there might be a missing planet in between Mars and Jupiter, early 19th-century astronomers serendipitously discovered the first asteroids. Today, spacecraft missions provide scientists a closer look at these important building blocks o…
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