118401 LINEAR
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118401 LINEAR is an active asteroid and main-belt comet that was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research 1-metre telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico on September 7, 1999. LINEAR was disco
Gemini North imaging of Asteroid 118401
Hyakutake Color
Active asteroid
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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, but th
118401 LINEAR
…118401 LINEAR (provisional designation 1999 RE70, comet designation 176P/LINEAR) is an active asteroid and main-belt comet that was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico on September 7…
Asteroid 596 Scheila displaying a comet-like appearance on 12 December 2010
Dust ejecta and tail from the aftermath of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test's impact on the asteroid moon Dimorphos, as seen by the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope in 2022
Disintegration of asteroid P/2013 R3 observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (6 March 2014).
Asteroid 101955 Bennu seen ejecting particles on January 6, 2019, in images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft