First Comet Observations with NIRSPEC-2 at Keck: Outgassing Sources of Parent Volatiles and Abundances Based on Alternative Taxonomic Compositional Baselines in 46P/Wirtanen
Narrowband Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen during Its Exceptional Apparition of 2018/19. I. Apparent Rotation Period and Outbursts
Six Outbursts of Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Instrument
WFC3/UVIS
Temporal Coverage
2018-12-03T04:27:30Z/2018-12-25T17:33:33Z
Version
1.0
Mission Description
Launched in 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope remains the premier UV and visible light telescope in orbit. With well over 1.6 million observations from 10 different scientific instruments, the ESA Hubble Science Archive is a treasure trove of astronomical data to be exploited.
European Space Agency, Bodewits comma Dennis, 2019, 'Close encounter with comet 46P/Wirtanen: X-ray tomography of the coma', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-v64cpve