This Asteroid Was Spotted Changing Colours For The First Time

Mashable India ^ | 09/04/2019 | Afiya Qureshi

[BenLurkin]

Asteroid 6478...Gault was discovered last December and labelled as an active asteroid that left not one, but two trails behind it, just like a comet. Now, the same asteroid has been caught switching colours, from red to blue in near-infrared spectrum by astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States. This is the first time in the history of extraterrestrial materials that that astronomers have seen any shift in colours in an asteroid.

Gault now glows in a blue tinge as a result of a less irradiated layer of the asteroid coming to light. According to the study’s co-author DeMeo, a change in the spectrum can be achieved with only a thin layer being removed. "It could be as thin as a single layer of grains just microns deep,” he explained.

The thing with Gault is that it is a rocky asteroid, found within the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. It’s a relatively average rock measuring around four kilometres that orbits the Sun from 344 million kilometers away. Now most comets are typically just loose bundles of ice and dust originating from cooler regions in the solar system. As they approach the Sun, they start getting hotter and their surface starts to melt away. The melting ice is what creates the comet’s characteristic tail.

[piasa]

Space cuttlefish

[right way right]

First time?
How do:they know that the asteroid has never changed colors before?

[Swordmaker]

Again, Gravity Deluded Cosmologists are surprised, shocked, stunned at the sudden realization that the universe doesn’t work the way their nice gravity driven theories say they should. In this instance a well behave asteroid suddenly spouts a double tail like a comet and not only that, it suddenly changes surface color. OOPS! How can that be? Well, how about it changed charges? —Electric/Plasma Universe PING!

Clear Example of a Birkeland Current
"Z" Pinch with Symmetrical Plasmids
seen in Hubble Telescope View of
The Twin Jet Nebula
ELECTRIC/PLASMA UNIVERSE PING!

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[no-to-illegals]

Blue as in cobalt ?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Swordmaker.

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[V K Lee]

The Back Street Boys.

[simpson96]

“This Asteroid Was Spotted Changing Colours For The First Time”

How do they know it was the first time the asteroid changed colors?

UK headline writers...