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A. Understanding the origin and evolution of main-belt comets asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter that show comet-like activity is a crucial element in our understanding of the formation and evolution of the whole Solar System.
B. Since only a few objects of this type are known, 288P presents itself as an extremely important system for future studies.
C. Among the questions main-belt comets can help to answer is how water came to Earth.
D. The various features of 288P wide separation of the two components, near-equal component size, high eccentricity and comet-like activity also make it unique among the few known wide asteroid binaries in the Solar System.
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