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Astronomers ‘dumbfounded’ by six-tailed asteroid
http://news.yahoo.com/astronomers-dumbfounded-six-tailed-asteroid-193129286.html
By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.
“We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it,” astronomer David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. “It’s hard to believe we’re looking at an asteroid.”
Asteroids normally have no tails.
The asteroid, known as P/2013 P5, first appeared as a fuzzy point of light in a sky survey by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii in August.
Maybe it is looking for Obama.
Which way is the Sun in these photographs?