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Ancient asteroid 20 times larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs likely hit Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

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Asteroid twice the size of Chicago spun Jupiter's moon around, made gravity anomaly - study

A new study claims that a gigantic asteroid twice the size of Chicago may have struck Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, four billion years ago and changed its axis. A massive asteroid with a surface ...
Forbes

Jupiter’s Main Moon Was Struck By A Colossal Asteroid, Scientists Say

This enhanced image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon on Juno's 34th pass close to ...
Futurism

Ganymede: Meet the Largest Moon in our Solar System

Most people who have an interest in space and astronomy know that Europa and Enceladus have subsurface oceans that could, according to exobiologists, contain alien life. Another notable moon is Io, ...
Time

Asteroid Bigger than the Dino-Killer Knocked the Solar System’s Largest Moon Sideways

The asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was nothing compared to a bigger impact that occurred roughly four billion years ...