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Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 – Fragment B: Apr. 19, 2006 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 – Fragment B: Apr. 19, 2006

April 27, 2006 · NASA

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Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys image of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 fragment B on April 19, 2006.

About the data

These HST data are from proposal 10992 : H.A. Weaver (JHU/APL), P.Lamy (Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France) , C. Lisse (University of Maryland), W. Reach (Caltech), and I.Toth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

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