Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup (2006)
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Object Description: Comet Distance from the Sun on April 18, 2006: 1.17 Astronomical Units (AU) or 108 million miles (173 million kilometers) Distance from the Earth on April 18, 2006: 0.22 Astronomical Units (AU) or 20 million miles (32 million kilometers) About the Data Data Description: These HST data are from proposal 10992: H.A. Weaver (JHU/APL), P.Lamy (Laboratoire d'Astronomie…
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