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from "medium resolution" option at http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-13a using the NASA w:Spitzer Space Telescope.

Caption from URL states "…three of the many fragments making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3.… the crumbling comet's trail of debris, seen here as a bridge connecting the larger fragments."

  • Object name: Comet 73P (aka) Comet Schwassman-Wachmann 3
  • Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)
  • Instrument: MIPS
  • Wavelength: 24 micrometres
  • Exposure date: 2006-05-04 to 2006-05-06
  • Exposure time: 21 hours
  • Release date: 2006-05-10

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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current01:50, 10 January 2007Thumbnail for version as of 01:50, 10 January 2007900 × 621 (151 KB)Smkolins{{PD-USGov-NASA}} from "medium resolution" option at http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2006-13a using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Caption from url states "…the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming

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