Asteroid in Hubble Data
stsci_1998-10d March 9th, 1998
Credit: R. Evans and K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA
This asteroid in the constellation Taurus has a visual magnitude of 23, and is one of the faintest seen so far in the Hubble archive. It moves from upper right to lower left in two consecutive exposures; the first trail is shown in blue and the second in red. Because of the asteroid's relatively straight trail, astronomers could not accurately determine its distance. The estimated diameter is half a mile (0.8 kilometers) at an Earth distance of 205 million miles and a sun distance of 298 million miles.
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/
-
View Options
-
Download Options
-
Full Size Image
(200 x 200)
Source TIFF (152 KB)
- Additional Sizes (JPG)
- 320 x 320 (87 KB)
- 1024 x 1024 (319 KB)
- 500 x 500 (141 KB)
- 1280 x 1280 (421 KB)
Image Details
Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 1998-10d
- 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
- 205,000,000
- Redshift
- 205,000,000
- 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
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 188.86810363361, 14.47442941028
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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-p9810d-f-200x200.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9810d-f-200x200.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...
