[meteorite-list] Stardust Flyby Images of Comet Wild 2

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:00 2004
Message-ID: <200401080129.RAA28444_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

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> Hi Ron,
> Great, most interesting animation!
> It seems that there was a very faint trace of a short, fan-shaped coma, seen
> from the comet's nucleous towards it's UPPER direction (as the picture is
> shown).

Bear in mind the spacecraft was well inside the coma when it took the images.
The feature you noticed is an artifact of looking through the periscope - a
double image effect.

Ron Baalke
Received on Wed 07 Jan 2004 08:29:11 PM PST