Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Revealed as Comet with Weak Tail
Astronomers have reclassified the near-Earth object (875163) 1998 SH2 as a comet following observations that revealed outgassing, a process previously masked by its asteroid-like appearance. According to research published in Nature Astronomy by Dr. Davide Farnocchia and his team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the object’s unexpected orbital deviations confirmed it is venting gas, leading … Read more