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New Active Asteroid 313P/Gibbs
David Jewitt, Jessica Agarwal, Nuno Peixinho +5
We present initial observations of the newly-discovered active asteroid 313P/Gibbs (formerly P/2014 S4), taken to characterize its nucleus and comet-like activity. The central obje…
Episodic Ejection from Active Asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS
David Jewitt, Jessica Agarwal, Harold Weaver +2
We examine the development of the active asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS (formerly, 2013 P5) in the period from 2013 September to 2014 February using high resolution images from the Hubble…
Disintegrating Asteroid P/2013 R3
David Jewitt, Jessica Agarwal, Jing Li +3
Splitting of the nuclei of comets into multiple components has been frequently observed but, to date, no main-belt asteroid has been observed to break-up. Using the Hubble Space Te…