BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Hidalgo

ASTEROID · the comet impersonator
Hidalgo
AI illustration of the real object
FOUND 1920ORBIT swings from Mars to Saturn

An object that has refused categories for a century: discovered as an asteroid, but riding a stretched, tilted orbit that swings from Mars' neighborhood out to Saturn's, exactly like a comet. Hidalgo is probably a burned out comet nucleus that lost its ices long ago, a ghost that kept the orbit but lost the tail.

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