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Comet Linear – C/1999 S4 (Comet LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research); C/1999 S4) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Comet Linear – C/1999 S4

August 7, 2000 · NASA · Comet LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research); C/1999 S4

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Facts

Object: Comet LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research); C/1999 S4
Distance: On August 5, 2000 the comet was at a distance of 64 million miles (102 million…
Released: August 7, 2000
Instrument: UH 2.2 m telescope
Observed: August 5, 2000
Image size: 1,578 × 1,170 px
Category: Solar System
Source: NASA

Credit

Science Release Credit: NASA , Harold Weaver (the Johns Hopkins University), the HST Comet LINEAR Investigation Team, and the University of Hawaii

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