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News Release 84 of 828

February 2, 2010 10:00 AM (EST)

News Release Number: STScI-2010-07

Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris

Technical facts about this news release:

About the Object

Object Name:	Cometary Asteroid P/2010 A2
Object Description:	Asteroid Belt Impact Object
Distance:	100 million miles (160 million km) from Earth.

About the Data

Data Description:	The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 12053: D. Jewitt (UCLA), H. Weaver (JPL/APL), M. Drahus (UCLA), and M. Mutchler (STScI).
Instrument:	WFC3
Exposure Date(s):	January 25 and 29, 2010
Filters:	F606W (V)

About the Release

Credit:	NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
Release Date:	February 2, 2010
Color:	This image was originally black and white and recorded only overall brightness. These brightness values were translated into a range of bluish hues. Such color "maps" can be useful in helping to distinguish subtly varying brightness in an image.
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