ESOcast 160 Light - Lost in Space - HD

An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The team found that the unusual Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is a carbon-rich asteroid, the first of its kind to be confirmed in the cold outer reaches of the Solar System. This curious object likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has been flung billions of kilometres from its origin to its current home in the Kuiper Belt.

Credit/Courtesy: ESO

Directed by: Nico Bartmann.
Editing: Nico Bartmann.
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Written by: Calum Turner and Richard Hook.
Music: written and performed by Stan Dart (www.stan-dart.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, NASA, ESA, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser and F. Kamphues.
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