eso_eso1614c April 29th, 2016
Credit: K. Meech (IfA/UH)/CFHT/ESO
Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, and the Canada France Hawai`i Telescope, show that C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) is the first object to be discovered that is on a long-period cometary orbit, but that has the characteristics of a pristine inner Solar System asteroid. It may provide important clues about how the Solar System formed. This image of the comet was acquired using the Canada France Hawai`i Telescope.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1614c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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