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NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroid Spout Six Comet-like Tails
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P/2013 P5 on September 23, 2013. --- This NASA Hubble Space Telescope set of images reveals a never-before-seen set of six comet-like tails radiating from a body in the asteroid belt, designated P/2013 P5. The asteroid was discovered as an unusually fuzzy-looking object with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) survey telescope in Hawaii. The multiple tails were discovered in Hubble images taken on Sept. 10, 2013. When Hubble returned to the asteroid on Sept.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineNASA's Hubble Sees Asteroid Spout Six Comet-like Tails. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001339.
