Near-Earth asteroid Don Quixote is actually a 'sopping wet' comet
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 18:00
in Astronomy & Space
A recent discovery reads like a Monty Python comedy sketch: bringing out a dead comet that was actually not dead.Scientists spotted a faint atmosphere called a coma around 3552 Don Quixote, an object classified as a near-Earth asteroid.