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Astronomers Discover New Active Asteroid's Tail that Gives it a Comet-Like Appearance

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articl...arance.htm

EXCERPT: [...] For 15 years, researchers thought the asteroid 642112 was simply a typical asteroid. It's only by investigating a bit deeper that scientists realized it was active. Now, researchers are looking at what causes asteroids to become active and what the tails are made up of....
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