2003 EL61 is a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt that is more than half the size of Pluto and shaped like a squashed American football. A new study finds that an ancient collision shattered it into several fragments, some of which became comets that might have found their way to Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

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