Uncovering a Centaur’s Tracks: UCF Scientists Examine Unique Asteroid-Comet Hybrid

A space telescope with a large, gold hexagonal mirror array and extensive sunshield, floating against a black background.

As a UCF Today articles describes, UCF planetary scientists Dr. Noemí Pinilla-Alonso, Dr. Charles Schambeau, Dr. Dale Cruikshank, and Dr. Carol de Souza-Feliciano (along with several colleagues) have published a paper on the enigmatic outer Solar System object (2060) Chiron using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Read more about the study and the paper itself.

Graphic of an open-tube telescope with a gold, hexagonally-segmented mirror and a metallic sun shield.

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