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Swift image of asteroid (596) Scheila (Asteroid (596) Scheila) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Swift image of asteroid (596) Scheila

May 4, 2011 · ESA/Hubble · Asteroid (596) Scheila

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Faint dust plumes bookend asteroid (596) Scheila, which is overexposed in this composite image. Visible and ultraviolet images from Swift's UVOT (circled) are merged with a Digital Sky Survey image of the same region. The UVOT images were acquired on 15 Dec 2010, when the asteroid was about 375 million kilometres from Earth.