Asteroid with unexplained orbital shift turns out to be a 'dark comet'
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- NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet NASA (.gov) · 1d ago
- An ‘Asteroid’ Tracked Since 1998 Made an Unexplained Orbital Shift—Now Astronomers Say It’s Something Far More Mysterious The Debrief · 1d ago
- ‘Dark comet’ discovery may explain strange interstellar visitor: Study NewsNation · 1d ago
- Asteroid turned out to be a comet and deviated from its trajectory Universe Space Tech · 1d ago
- Non-gravitational acceleration indicative of cometary activity of near-Earth object Nature · 1d ago
- Asteroid with unexplained orbital shift turns out to be a 'dark comet' Phys.org · 1d ago broke it first
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