Six-tailed comet or self-destructing asteroid? It's a comsteroid!

Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 14:01 in Astronomy & Space

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted one of the weirdest objects ever seen in the asteroid belt: a chunk of rock that's spinning around like an out-of-control lawn sprinkler, spraying out up to six comet-like tails of dust.

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