596 Scheila is a main-belt asteroid and main-belt comet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 21 February 1906 by August Kopff from Heidelberg. Kopff named the asteroid after a female English student with whom he was acquainted.On December 11.4 2010 Steve Larson of the Catalina Sky Survey detected a comet-like appearance to asteroid Scheila: it displayed a coma of about magnitude 13.5.
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