The Outburst of the Main-Belt Asteroid 596 Scheila

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1599l&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1599

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During survey main belt asteroid 596 Scheila was discovered to have a cometary appearance on 2010 Dec. 11.4 UT (IAUC 9188) as part of the Catalina Sky Survey for NEOs. Archived survey images indicate that the outburst started not long before 2010 Dec. 3 when it was more than 1.3 magnitude brighter than normal, but with little, if any discernable dust cloud. The evolution of the dust cloud was consistent with the ejection of dust blown back by solar radiation pressure. It had all but dissipated by the end This would most likely have been the result of an impact of a relatively small asteroid.

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