Solar System
ACS Images of KBO “Quaoar”
October 7, 2002 · NASA · 2002 LM60, Quaoar · Ophiuchus
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Composite of 16 separate exposures resulting in the trail of the KBO against the sky.
About the data
Principal Astronomers: M. Brown and C. Trujillo (Caltech)
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