Cometary Activity Begins at Kuiper Belt Distances: Evidence from C/2017 K2
Distant Comet C/2017 K2 and the Cohesion Bottleneck
Instrument
WFC3/UVIS
Temporal Coverage
2017-12-18T22:29:33Z/2018-06-15T16:24:01Z
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, Jewitt et al., 2018, 'Characterization of Distant Comet C/2017 K2', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-tpxl9d9