07.03.2014 - 08:31 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration ]

NASA‘s Hubble Telescope Witnesses Asteroid‘s Mysterious Disintegration

With the previous discovery of an active asteroid spouting six tails, named P/2013 P5, astronomers are finding more evidence the pressure of sunlight may be the primary force causing the disintegration of small asteroids — less than a mile across– in our solar system.