PIA21259_-_Celestial_Object_2016_WF9,_a_NEOWISE_Discovery_(Artist_Concept).jpg


Summary

Description
English: An artist’s rendition of 2016 WF9 as it passes Jupiter’s orbit inbound toward the sun.

JPL manages NEOWISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, built the science instrument. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, built the spacecraft. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise , http://wise.astro.ucla.edu and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wise .
Date 29 December 2016 ( published 29 December 2016 )
Source Catalog page · Full-res ( JPEG · TIFF )
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA21259 .

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