(CNN) -- What's that in the sky? Is it an asteroid? A comet? A lawn sprinkler? Turns out a newly discovered object is a little bit of all three -- minus the fact that you won't find many green lawns millions of miles from Earth -- NASA announced Friday. "We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," David Jewitt, who leads the team exploring the "asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel." "It" is P/2013 P5, which NASA described as an "unusually fuzzy-looking object" when it was spotted in August in our solar system's asteroid belt.
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The Hubble Space Telescope focuses on object in the solar system's asteroid belt
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Astronomers discover it is an "asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it"
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"We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," an astronomer says
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One theory is that this is what happens to asteroids before they die
NASA is still watching @placeholder -- which Jewitt says apparently is a fragment of a bigger asteroid that broke off approximately 200 million years ago -- to figure out exactly why it's doing what it's doing.