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		lazide 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out ... Yeah, there have also been some other odd historical objects like [https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/how-a-long-gone-...] In that case they figured out what it was when a spectrograph of the surface light showed it was - painted! Hah.

TeMPOraL 10 months ago [–]

> In that case they figured out what it was when a spectrograph of the surface light showed it was - painted! Hah.

Good they caught it now, though I figured all the paint has long been eaten away by UV rays.

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