311P/PanSTARRS

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311P/PanSTARRS, also known as P/2013 P5 (PanSTARRS), is an active asteroid and Encke-type comet discovered by Bryce T. Bolin using the Pan-STARRS telescope on 27 August 2013. Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that it had six comet-like tails.

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Image: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.