Active asteroid

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

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Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Active asteroids are small Solar System bodies that have asteroid-like orbits but show comet-like visual characteristics. That is, they show a coma, tail, or other visual evidence of mass-loss (like a comet), but their orbits remain within Jupiter's orbit (like an asteroid).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Active asteroid”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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