Eyes on Asteroids

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Hi Rod,

Those are some great images of the comet.

Thanks,

Phil S.

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Hi All,

Jason Craig gave permission to post his full reply about the objects.
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Hi Phil, great question! 

We actually wondered that ourselves, and since we use the SSD database (https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/) directly, we weren’t sure if it was a bug or not.  But it’s actually 73/P Schwassmann-Wachmann, a disintegrating comet. 

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_look.../?sstr=73p

Also see this Wikipedia entry:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73P/Schwas...93Wachmann

For the next release, we will include a label for it since everyone wants to know what it is. 

Thanks,

Jason

Jason Craig
Visualization Producer
NASA’s Eyes
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Phil S.