B-type asteroid

Rarity: Uncommon

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

B-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group; the 'B' indicates these objects are spectrally blue.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “B-type asteroid”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Hubble Space Telescope/STScI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.