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Comet Siding Spring (October 19, 2014)
The comet image shown here is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 exposures taken between October 18, 8:06 a.m. EDT and October 19, 11:17 p.m. EDT. CreditsNASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (PSI), C.M. Lisse (JHU/APL), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2014
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2014-45-3444-image
The comet image shown here is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 exposures taken between October 18, 8:06 a.m. EDT and October 19, 11:17 p.m. EDT.
Credits
NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (PSI), C.M. Lisse (JHU/APL), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Comet C/2013 A1, Comet Siding Spring |
| Object Description | Comet |
| Distance | On October 19, 2014, at 2:28 p.m. EDT, Mars and Comet Siding Spring were approximately 149 million miles from Earth and passed within 87,000 miles (1.5 arcminutes) of each other. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The image was created from Hubble data from the following proposals: : PI: Z. Levay and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and : PI: J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), T. Farnham and M. Kelley (University of Maryland), N. Samarasinha (Planetary Science Institute), D. Bodewits and M. A'Hearn (University of Maryland), C. Lisse (JHU/APL), W. Delamere (Delamere Support Services), and M. Mutchler (STScI). |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | October 19, 2014 |
| Filters | F775W |
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