(596) Scheila Asteroid Collision Animation
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
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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.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
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
Datasets used in this visualization
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Swift
ID: 217
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