C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)

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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) is a comet, discovered using the Pan-STARRS telescopes on September 7, 2016. The comet has recently attracted attention from many astronomers as it approaches its closest point to the sun in May 2018.[1] It has been observed to have a very complex tail, which has been suggested to be due to a fast rotation period of the nucleus.

References

  1. ^ https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180112.html


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