Hubble image archive

P/2013 P5 on September 23, 2013

CreditsNASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles), J. Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), M. Mutchler (STScI), and S. Larson (University of Arizona)

Date: Jan 1, 2013
Mission: Hubble Space Telescope
Archive ID: hubblesite-images-2013-52-3267-image

By Kakha Giorgashvili January 1, 2013

Credits

NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles), J. Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), M. Mutchler (STScI), and S. Larson (University of Arizona)

Image Details

About The Object
Object Name	P/2013 P5
Object Description	Active Asteroid
Distance	At the time of the Hubble observations in September 2013, P/2013 P5 was 1.1 astronomical units (112 million miles) from Earth and 2.1 astronomical units (195 million miles) from the Sun.
About The Data
Data Description	The image was created from Hubble data from proposal : D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles), J. Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), M. Mutchler (STScI), and S. Larson (University of Arizona).
Instrument	HST>WFC3/UVIS
Exposure Dates	September 23, 2013
Filters	F350LP (long pass)
About The Image
Color Info	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.