Ouch! Subaru telescope catches astroid prang

Astronomers have announced evidence that a main-belt asteroid called 493 Griseldis took a hit from another object in March of this year. Shots taken by the Subaru 8m optical telescope showed that Griseldis had grown a tail – and unlike a comet's tail, which points away from the sun, the asteroid's tail was “not in the …

[Anonymous Coward]

Tail?

Looks more like a big rocket exhaust to me.

[Sceptic Tank]

Astroids!

Player 2 up!

Insert coin.

[ecofeco]

Re: Astroids!

For the win!

[Winkypop]

Hit and run!

Call Galactic Patrol.

[TeeCee]

Re: Hit and run!

I feel sorry for 493 Griseldis. It's going to be spammed by ambulance chasers after a "whiplash" claim for years now.

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: Hit and run!

Space Patrol? Right here.

[MJI]

So that is what they are doing

Since they stopped doing the WRC

[Fink-Nottle]

Max Wolf ... wasn't he Professor Calculus' assistant on that Belgian mission to the moon?

[DanceMan]

A comet's tale?

[Sven Coenye]

Excited about a tail

What about the cloaking device that hid an entire galaxy?!

Time to go get my towel...

[BlindProgrammer]

Hit by Google car?

Perhaps it was hit by one of Google's autonomous cars. The sahpe of things to come

[Gobhicks]

Does God play dice...

... or just billiards?

[Vinyl-Junkie]

So not Mars after all then....

".....indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enormous velocity towards this earth. This jet of fire had become invisible about a quarter past twelve. He compared it to a colossal puff of flame suddenly and violently squirted out of the planet, "as flaming gases rushed out of a gun.""

H.G. Wells. The War of the Worlds.

[Jan 0]

Subaru telescope?

That's all very interesting, but why does the telescope need four wheel drive?

[Triple B]

Re: Subaru telescope?

Well, asteroids are basically big lumps of gravel...

[Paul Hovnanian]

Video available ...

... on the Russian dash-cam sites.