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News Release Number: STScI-2013-52
NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroid Spout Six Comet-like Tails
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/52
November 7, 2013: It’s not often that astronomers stumble across a celestial interloper that they can only describe as “weird and freakish.” Hubble researchers say they were “literally dumbfounded” when they took a close-up look at 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.
One explanation is that the tails formed through a series of impulsive dust-ejection events. These could have been triggered when the gentle nudge of sunlight spun up the asteroid to the point where dust is falling off the surface and into space. Solar radiation stretches the dust into finger-like streamers.
Finally! The Scientologists ride has come for them.
THE EXTRAORDINARY MULTI-TAILED MAIN-BELT COMET P/2013 P5
http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/778/1/L21/
The Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume 778 Number 1
David Jewitt et al. 2013 ApJ 778 L21 doi:10.1088/2041-8205/778/1/L21
Looks like a headlight to me.
What they are seeing is a starcraft. Those "tails" are positioning jets adjusting the flight path...
It's an invasion recon vehicle!!!
I don’t care if it’s got a head, six legs and ten tails as long as it’s headed away from Earth!