PIA18653: NEOWISE Spies Activity on Comet Catalina


NEOWISE Spies Activity on Comet Catalina

Caption:

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Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) appeared to be a highly active comet one day past perihelion on July 7, 2014.

More information on NEOWISE is online at http://neowise.ipac.caltech.edu .

Background Info:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the NEOWISE mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, built the science instrument. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina)
System
Target Type Comet
Mission Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE)
Instrument Host NEOWISE
Host Type Space Telescope
Instrument NEOWISE Telescope
Detector
Extra Keywords Color, Infrared
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2014-07-23
Date in Caption 2014-07-07
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18653
Identifier PIA18653