(596) Scheila Asteroid Collision Animation
Late last year, astronomers noticed that an asteroid named Scheila had brightened unexpectedly and was sporting a short-lived tail. Now, data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope show that these changes likely occurred after Scheila was struck by a much smaller asteroid.
Animation of (596) Scheila collision and dust plumes. Includes some sound effects.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab
Animators
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Michael Lentz (UMBC)
Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, April 28, 2011.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:- Swift Asteroid Collision (ID: 2011041)
Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Robert Crippen (NASA)
Datasets used in this visualization
[Swift]
ID: 217
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