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789-Asteroid With A Tail

Travelers In The Night

English - March 22, 2024 16:00 - 2 minutes - 3.68 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he came across a very curious object. It has an orbit like an ordinary main belt asteroid. However, amazingly it has a tail extending some 19,000 miles out from a few mile diameter central object.