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Asteroid-comet hybrid named "Chiron" is unlike anything ever seen before
JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system's formation.
An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years
The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron likely originated from the TNO region and has likely been zipping around our Solar System since it was formed about 4.6 billion years ago. The team hopes to continue analyzing Chiron’s gases in the future.
Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope finds
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the centaur called
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Chiron
is an oddball. The object, which is a minor body that orbits the sun in the expanse between Jupiter and Neptune ...
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'Like nothing we've seen before': James Webb telescope spies a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid lurking past Jupiter
The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...
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Asteroid or comet? Scientists find ancient ice giant in our solar system that’s both!
Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...
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Uncovering a centaur’s tracks: UCF scientists examine unique asteroid-comet hybrid
UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (
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Chiron
, a distant ...
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Observations find evolving material, not rings, circling Centaur Chiron
More information: Amanda A. Sickafoose et al, Material around the Centaur (
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Chiron
from the 2018 November 28 UT Stellar Occultation, The Planetary Science Journal (2023). DOI: ...
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