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Annotated Illustration and Compass Image of Hubble Image of Asteroid (596) Scheila
CreditsIllustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI); Science: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewett (UCLA)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2011
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2011-13-2842-image
Credits
Illustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI);Science: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewett (UCLA)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Asteroid (596) Scheila |
| Object Description | Main-Belt Comet/Asteroid |
| Distance | Scheila’s orbit lies in the outer asteroid belt at a semi-major axis of 2.926 AU from the Sun. During the time of the Hubble observations, the asteroid was ~3.1 AU from the Sun, and ~2.3 AU from Earth. |
| Dimensions | The image is 2.2 arcminutes (133,000 mi or 214,000 km) wide. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from proposal HST proposal : D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), M. Mutchler (STScI), S. Larson (University of Arizona), and J. Agarwal (ESA/ESTEC, University of Potsdam). |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | December 27, 2010, Exposure Time: 26 minutes |
| Filters | F606W (V) |
| 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. |
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