Hubble image archive
Comet LINEAR Shatters Into Shower of Mini-Comets
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope mission archive.
- Date
- Jan 1, 2000
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2000-27-988-image
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Comet LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research); C/1999 S4 |
| Object Description | Comet |
| Distance | On August 5, 2000 the comet was at a distance of 64 million miles (102 million km) from Earth. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Principal Astronomers: Comet LINEAR investigation team: H. Weaver and P. Feldman (JHU), M. A'Hearn (Univ. of Maryland), C. Arpigny (Liege Univ.), J. Bauer (Univ. of Hawaii), M. Combi (Univ. of Michigan), J. Davies (Joint Astronomy Centre), M. Festou (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees), M. Keesey (JPL), P. Lamy (Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale), C. Lisse (STScI), B. Marsden (SAO), K. Meech (Univ. of Hawaii), Z. Sekanina (JPL) , I. Toth (Konkoly Observatory) , G.-P. Tozzi (Arcetri Observatory), D. Yeomans (JPL). |
| Instrument | HST>WFPC2 |
| Exposure Dates | August 5, 2000, Exposure Time: 1.7 hours |
| Filters | F675W (R) |
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