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Astronomers Use JWST To Study a Rare Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Named "Chiron"
Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Following in the footsteps of a centaur: Scientists capture Chiron, a never-before-seen mix of comet and asteroid
A study with the James Webb Space Telescope led by astronomer Noemí Pinilla-Alonso clarifies the characteristics of the ...
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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 (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur ...
Uncovering a centaur's tracks: Scientists examine unique asteroid-comet hybrid
Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ice along with carbon ...