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Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope finds

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving clues to our Solar System’s origins in a newly published study.

Comet and Centaur (2060) 95P/Chiron might have something like meteor showers from intersecting 2015 RD277’s orbit, partially driving its cometary activity.