P / 2013 R3

The asteroid P / 2013 R3 was discovered in September 2013. Due to the YORP effect , it has broken up into ten fragments that are slowly moving away from each other.

As a cloud of debris, they move around the sun in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Recordings were made with the Hubble Space Telescope .

Web links

• Tilmann Althaus: P / 2013 R3 an asteroid flies apart. In: Spektrum.de. Spectrum of Science, March 7, 2014 . 
• Ralph-Mirko Richter: P / 2013 R3 - A breaking asteroid. In: raumfahrer.net. March 8, 2014 . 
• DokuHD: The secret files of NASA, moon magnets (in HD) (from 0:29:00) on YouTube , November 20, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2019.