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Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope findsa bit like a comet. Charles Schambeau of the University of Central Florida describes Chiron as an oddball among all the other centaurs, and even among trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which have ...
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Scientists Stunned by Discovery of Rare Asteroid-Comet Hybrid That’s Unlike Anything Ever Observed in The Solar SystemOfficially classified as 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide object blurs the boundaries between asteroid and comet. Now, thanks to groundbreaking observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...
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