P/2016 P5 (COIAS) is a Jupiter-family comet with a 10-year orbit around the Sun. Its discovery was announced on 21 March 2025, when cometary activity was spotted on an asteroidal object that was photographed by the Subaru Telescope in 2016. It is the second comet discovered through the Come On! Impacting ASteroids (COIAS) campaign.
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External links P/2016 P5 at the JPL Small-Body Database P/2016 P5 at Tsutomu Seki's website