Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 |
| Object Description: |
Comet |
Distance from the Sun
on April 18, 2006: |
1.17 Astronomical Units (AU) or 108 million miles (173 million kilometers) |
Distance from the Earth
on April 18, 2006: |
0.22 Astronomical Units (AU) or 20 million miles (32 million kilometers) |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
These HST data are from proposal 10992: H.A. Weaver (JHU/APL), P.Lamy (Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France) , C. Lisse (University of Maryland), W. Reach (Caltech), and I.Toth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
April 18 - 20, 2006 |
| Exposure Time: |
2.3 hours |
| Filters: |
F606W (V) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI) |
| Release Date: |
April 27, 2006 |
| Orientation: |
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