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22 Nov 2009

NASA's Swift satellite comet tally highlighted

- 24 Apr 2009
By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center   
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image IMAGE: This is a montage of comets Lulin, Tuttle and SW3.

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A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown during a webcast called "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" Organized by the European Southern Observatory headquartered in Garching, Germany.

 
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