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Asteroid Disintegration Spotted By NASA’s Hubble — Never-Before-Seen Phenomenon
Saturday, March 8, 2014 16:20
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The incredibly rare sight of an asteroid’s disintegration was recently captured in a series of images by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The images show (in great clarity) the never-before-seen process of a fully intact asteroid coming apart — into ten pieces in this instance. While fragile comet nuclei have been observed disintegrating during close approaches
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