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from "medium resolution" option at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-04/ssc2005-04a.shtml using the NASA w:Spitzer Space Telescope.

Caption from URL states in part "…the comet Encke riding along its pebbly trail of debris (long diagonal line) between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. ... Twin jets of material can also be seen shooting away from the comet in the short, fan-shaped emission, spreading horizontally from the comet."

Object Name: Comet Encke
Distance: 2.0 AU from Spitzer (at time of observation)
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kelley (Univ. of Minnesota)
Instrument: MIPS

Exposure Date: 2004-06-23
Exposure Time: 130 seconds
Release Date: 11 January 2005

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Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
2007-01-10 01:39:45	720× 900×	Smkolins	{{PD-USGov-NASA}} from "medium resolution" option at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-04/ssc2005-04a.shtml using the NASA [[Spitzer Space Telescope]]. Object Name: Comet Encke Distance: 2.0 AU from Spitzer (at time of observation)

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current	20:29, 5 November 2016		720 × 900 (90 KB)	Zppix	Transferred from en.wikipedia (MTC!)

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