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Can some of the ageing effects on asteroid surfaces be caused by an interplanetary rain of carbon-rich Solar System debris? Observations from the Dawn space mission suggest that the answer is yes. See Letters p.79 & p.83

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Figure 1: Asteroid Vesta.

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  1. Beth Ellen Clark is in the Physics Department, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA, and with NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return mission at the University of Arizona.,

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Clark, B. Dark and stormy weather. Nature 491, 45–46 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/491045a

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