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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 "…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 microns
Exposure Date: 2006/05/04-06
Exposure Time: 21 hours
Release Date: 2006/05/10

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current	01:50, 10 January 2007	900×621 (151 KB)	Smkolins (Talk \| contribs)	({{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 )