Asteroids Becoming Comets

Asteroids P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS) / 311P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/311P/PANSTARRS

The Nucleus of Active Asteroid 311P/(2013 P5) 
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05897

Episodic Ejection from Active Asteroid 311P
https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8573

P/2013 P5: Hubble Spots Bizarre Asteroid with Six Comet-Like Tails
http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-p2013p5-hubble-asteroid-six-tails-01530.html

When Do Asteroids And Comets Become One And The Same
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/asteroid-00j.html

When Asteroids Become Comets 
https://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060407cometasteroid.htm

The Strange Case of 133P/Elst-Pizarro : A Comet among the Asteroids - David Jewitt
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228537837_The_Strange_Case_of_133PElst-Pizarro_A_Comet_among_the_Asteroids

Active Asteroids : Mystery in the Main Belt - David Jewitt
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228575154_Active_Asteroids_Mystery_in_the_Main_Belt

Asteroid 2060 Chiron (95P/Chiron)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron

Asteroid 60558 Echeclus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60558_Echeclus

Main-belt comet 7968 Elst–Pizarro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7968_Elst%E2%80%93Pizarro

Main-belt comet 176P / LINEAR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/118401_LINEAR

The Active Asteroids, by David Jewitt

http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/mbc.html

Comet 107P / Wilson–Harrington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4015_Wilson%E2%80%93Harrington

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