Asteroid in Hubble Data
stsci_1998-10b March 9th, 1998
Credit: R. Evans and K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA
Hubble captured a bright asteroid, with a visual magnitude of 18.7, roaming in the constellation Centaurus. Background stars are shown in white, while the asteroid trail is depicted in blue at top center. The trail has a length of 19 arc seconds. This asteroid has a diameter of one and one-quarter miles (2 kilometers), and was located 87 million miles from Earth and 156 million miles from the sun. Numerous orange and blue specks in this image and the following two images were created by cosmic rays, energetic subatomic particles that struck the camera's detector.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-10
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 1998-10b
- Subject Category
- A.2.3
- Subject Name
- unknown
- Credits
- R. Evans and K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA
- Release Date
- 1998-03-09T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 87,000,000
- Redshift
- 87,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-10
- Type
- Planetary
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- miles from Earth
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 188.86810363361, 14.47442941028
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- Reference Pixel
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- Rotation
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- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9810b-f-350x350.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9810b-f-350x350.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/10
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
