Calculating The Birth Of An Asteroid's Trail

Unlike comets, asteroids don't have a trail - with some exceptions. Spanish researchers observed using the Gran Telescopio Canarias and discovered that something happened around July 1st, 2011 that caused a trail to appear on P/2012 F5 (Gibbs) - perhaps an internal rupture or a collision with another asteroid. read more

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