Thetis articles
Deeper dives into Thetis, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
Thetis: an asteroid that may have melted
What pyroxene and olivine in Thetis’s spectrum say about its hot early history.
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How a student of Encke found 24 asteroids from Düsseldorf — starting with Thetis.
Read →From a dolphin sketch to Unicode: Thetis’s symbol
Why early asteroids had symbols, why they were dropped — and how Thetis’s returned in Unicode 17.0.
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