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Disintegrating comet 332p

My team released this animation of a disintegrating comet. See the news story and our published journal article. I designed these observations using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.

David Jewitt, Max Mutchler, Harold Weaver, Man-To Hui, Jessica Agarwal, Masateru Ishiguro, Jan Kleyna, Jing Li, Karen Meech, Marco Micheli, Richard Wainscoat, Robert Weryk. Fragmentation Kinematics in Comet 332P/Ikeya–Murakami. The Astrophysical Journal, 2016; 829 (1): L8 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/829/1/L8

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