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Six-Tailed Asteroid

Great Britain · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2013

David Jewitt7 November 2013

Science / Astronomy

Jewitt leads Hubble observations of asteroid P/2013 P5, which displays six comet-like dust tails.

Names involved

David Jewitt

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