page_title: 311P/PANSTARRS
hierarchical_section_title: 311P/PANSTARRS
caption_attribution_description: English: Asteroid P/2013 P5 version 2
context_page_description: 311P/PANSTARRS also known as P/2013 P5 is an asteroid discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope on 27 August 2013. Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that it had six comet-like tails. The tails are suspected to be streams of material ejected by the asteroid as a result of a rubble pile asteroid spinning fast enough to remove material from it. This is similar to 331P/Gibbs, which was found to be a quickly-spinning rubble pile as well.
  Three-dimensional models constructed by Jessica Agarwal of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany, showed that the tails could have formed by a series of periodic impulsive dust-ejection events, radiation pressure from the sun then stretched the dust into streams.
  Precovery images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from 2005 were found, showing negligible cometary activity in 2005.
context_section_description: 311P/PANSTARRS also known as P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS) is an asteroid (or main-belt comet) discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope on 27 August 2013. Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that it had six comet-like tails. The tails are suspected to be streams of material ejected by the asteroid as a result of a rubble pile asteroid spinning fast enough to remove material from it. This is similar to 331P/Gibbs, which was found to be a quickly-spinning rubble pile as well.
  Three-dimensional models constructed by Jessica Agarwal of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany, showed that the tails could have formed by a series of periodic impulsive dust-ejection events, radiation pressure from the sun then stretched the dust into streams.
  Precovery images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from 2005 were found, showing negligible cometary activity in 2005.
caption: P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS) as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
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