‘Freakish’ Asteroid Has Six Tails, Sheds Stuff Into Space

universetoday.com ^ | November 7, 2013 | by Elizabeth Howell on

[BenLurkin]

Pictures of asteroid P/2013 P5 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)

Good shooting, Tex.

[AU72]

Should name it Obamacare.

[Boogieman]

Don’t be fooled. It’s Darth Vader’s TIE interceptor, spinning out of control and leaking coolant into space.

[txrefugee]

“Signs and wonders.” Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!

[big'ol_freeper]

Reavers!

[a fool in paradise]

There’s something you don’t see every day, an asteroid with dandruff.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[DJ MacWoW]

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[steve86]

If the object were truly spinning as they claim wouldn’t the tails show curvature as they emanate from the object?

[Black Agnes]

That looks like renderings of the Star of Bethlehem.

Interesting.

[fella]

"Reavers!"

Not a problem.

[JoeProBono]

[GeronL]

Maybe it’s not just a big rock!

we’re doomed

DOOOOOMed!

[justa-hairyape]

If the object were truly spinning as they claim wouldn’t the tails show curvature as they emanate from the object?

Depends on the spin rate. It if takes 20 hours for a rotation and the asteroid is traveling thousands of miles per hour, you might not see any curvature over that distance. Of course it could also be the out put of a directional rocket steering it into the path of Planet Earth. That is always a possibility in this universe.

[Vaquero]

Reavers ?? A sure cure

[Vaquero]

Don’t know who is hotter. Kaylee, Inara, River or Zoe the warrior woman.

[fella]

“I’ll be in my bunk.”

[Vaquero]

Heh, heh.

[Pyro7480]

I love how this thread quickly got sidetracked into a Firefly/Serenity discussion. :-D

[Vaquero]

I’d trade my favorite gun for Saffron.