NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroid Spouting Six Comet-Like Tails
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 12:00
in Astronomy & Space
Hubble researchers say they were "literally dumbfounded" when they took a close-up look at P/2013 P5, an object that lives in the asteroid belt but superficially looks like a comet. It has no less than six dust tails that seem to be forming sequentially. The entire structure rotates like a bicycle wheel with spokes on one side.