Asteroids do not typically sport the long tails found coming from comets. 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. 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. Read more about this discovery at the LA Times and the UCLA Newsroom.
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