Friday, February 5, 2010

Asteroids Collide!!!

On January 6, 2010, the LINEAR project spotted this:

When Hubble was turned to get it's all-seeing-eye on this strange, comet-like thing, this is the image that we got:

Apparently, two asteroids collided in what's certainly not a cosmic first, but certainly the first time such a thing has been witnessed. Click for the larger image.

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