Interamnia articles
Deeper dives into Interamnia, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
Vincenzo Cerulli and the Collurania Observatory
The Italian astronomer who built his own observatory in Teramo, doubted the Martian canals and found one big asteroid.
Read →Interamnia’s first real portrait
How VLT images and occultations finally gave the fifth-largest asteroid a shape — and hinted it may be icy.
Read →Weighing an asteroid with no moon
Why Interamnia’s mass estimates range from 2.7 to 7 × 10¹⁹ kg, and how astronomers combine them.
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