{"id":9064,"date":"2013-11-08T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:35:54","slug":"new-asteroid-discovered-with-six-comet-like-tails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9064","title":{"rendered":"New asteroid discovered with six comet-like tails"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9067\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9067\" alt=\"asteroid_manytailed\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/asteroid_manytailed1-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/asteroid_manytailed1-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/asteroid_manytailed1.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of asteroid P\/2013 P5 and its set of six comet-like tails. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and David Jewitt\/UCLA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asteroids do not typically sport the long tails found coming from comets.\u00a0 Yet observations of newly-discovered asteroid P\/2013 P5 show the object has not only one, but six dusty tails streaming outward from the central body.\u00a0 In a paper published on November 7, 2013, UCLA Professor David Jewitt suggests these uncharacteristic plumes could be made of dust that was ejected from the surface of the rapidly spinning asteroid.\u00a0 Read more about this discovery at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-asteroid-with-six-comet-like-tails-20131107,0,4090489.story#axzz2k5fnEM85\">LA Times<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/portal\/ucla\/freakish-asteroid-discovered-249275.aspx\">UCLA Newsroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroids do not typically sport the long tails found coming from comets.\u00a0 Yet observations of newly-discovered asteroid P\/2013 P5 show the object has not only one, but six dusty tails streaming outward from the central body.\u00a0 In a paper published on November 7, 2013, UCLA Professor David Jewitt suggests these uncharacteristic plumes could be made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New asteroid discovered with six comet-like tails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}