NASA discovers ‘asteroid’ near Earth is actually a hidden comet after decades of mystery

The scientific community believed for almost three decades that a tiny celestial body moving around Earth belonged to the category of asteroids. But a study conducted recently by NASA has shown that this space body had been hiding a shocking secret from scientists, it is actually a comet.According to reports appearing in the journal Nature Astronomy, this discovery is the outcome of an extensive research work carried out internationally and headed by scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory located in Southern California. Apart from changing the status of this space object, this discovery will provide additional information for identifying possible dangers in outer space.This object which was till now referred to as 1998 SH2 had first been discovered in 1998. It has so far been classified as a near-Earth asteroid, which moves around the Sun once every four and a half years.