 A prior example of such an occurrence is in the literature.In April 2019, upon analyzing archive images taken in 2013, 2016 and 2017, it was found that "Gault" had been perpetually active for at least five years before the discovery, with a tail visible when the asteroid was near its furthest distance from the Sun during the 2013 apparition.If its activity is indeed caused by a rotational breakup, then "Gault" has remained active far longer than any other object of this type seen before.