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Imagen rápida del asteroide (596) Scheila

Faint dust plumes bookend asteroid (596) Scheila, which is overexposed in this composite image. Visible and ultraviolet images from Swift's UVOT (circled) are merged with a Digital Sky Survey image of the same region. The UVOT images were acquired on Dec. 15, 2010, when the aster...

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Jan 1, 2011
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
ID de archivo
hubblesite-images-2011-13-2841-image
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Faint dust plumes bookend asteroid (596) Scheila, which is overexposed in this composite image. Visible and ultraviolet images from Swift's UVOT (circled) are merged with a Digital Sky Survey image of the same region. The UVOT images were acquired on Dec. 15, 2010, when the asteroid was about 232 million miles from Earth.

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NASA/Swift/DSS/D. Bodewits (University of Maryland, College Park)

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About The Object
Object NameAsteroid (596) Scheila

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