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from "medium resolution" option at http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-13a using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.

Caption from URL states "…three of the many fragments making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.… the crumbling comet's trail of debris, seen here as a bridge connecting the larger fragments."

  • Object name: Comet 73P (aka) Comet Schwassman-Wachmann 3
  • Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)
  • Instrument: MIPS
  • Wavelength: 24 microns
  • Exposure Date: 2006/05/04-06
  • Exposure Time: 21 hours
  • Release Date: 2006/05/10

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current 01:50, 10 January 2007 900×621 (151 KB) Smkolins ( Talk | contribs) ({{PD-USGov-NASA}} from "medium resolution" option at http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-13a using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Caption from url states "…the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming )

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