Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto (Unannotated)
stsci_2012-32b July 11th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
A 2012 Hubble Space Telescope image of P5, S/2012 (134340) 1.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2012/news-2012-32
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
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- ID
- 2012-32b
- Subject Category
- A.2.1 A.1.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- P5, S/2012 (134340) 1
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
- Release Date
- 2012-07-11T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2012/news-2012-32
- Type
- Planetary
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Although its orbit is highly eccentric, Pluto's average distance from the Sun is 39.44 astronomical units (roughly 3.6 billion miles or 5.9 billion kilometers). P5's distance from Pluto is 26,000 miles or 42,000 kilometers.
- Facility
- Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3/UVIS
- Color Assignment
- Blue
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 350
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 279.0775000, -19.2830861
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
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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-p1232b-f-2220x2472.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1232b-f-2220x2472.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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