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Astronomy Magazine Hubble Wallpapers Videos See the universe come to life via animations, scientific visualizations, expert commentary, and more. Cosmos Magazine - Space Asteroid surfaces are heavy with bombardment and are being shaped by impacts at even a microscopic level, researchers have found. Credit: JAXA CAMBRIDGE: Tiny particles of space dust bombard asteroids and shape their surface at a microscopic level, scientists have found. A study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science analysed material from the surface of a near-Earth asteroid. The features discovered provide unprecedented detail about the history of primitive solar bodies. “Our findings show the landscape itself of the very surface of an asteroid,” said Eizo Nakamura, who worked on the study with colleagues at Okayama University in Misasa, Japan and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Exploring the surface of an asteroid Asteroids are considered to be intermediate products of processes that formed large solar bodies. Space weathering Nakamura and his team examined five dust grains from Itokawa’s surface, each measuring just 50 micrometres across.