Kuiper belt object 2003 UB313

Esahubble_opo0616b_1024

esahubble_opo0616b April 11th, 2006

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Brown (California Institute of Technology)

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope resolved Kuiper Belt object Xena, for the first time, and found that it is only just a little larger than Pluto. Ground-based observations suggested that Xena was about 30 percent greater in diameter than Pluto, but Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys images, taken on Dec. 9 and 10, 2005, yielded a diameter of 1,490 miles with an uncertainty of 60 miles (or about 2400 kilometres with an uncertainty of 100 kilometres) for Xena. Pluto's diameter, as measured by Hubble, is 1,422 miles (about 2290 kilometres).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0616b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Eris
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Dwarf planet

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale Hubble (ACS) Optical (B) 435.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Esahubble_opo0616b_1280
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ID
opo0616b
Subject Category
A.2.1  
Subject Name
Eris
Credits
NASA, ESA, and M. Brown (California Institute of Technology)
Release Date
2006-04-11T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0616b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
ACS
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Optical
Bandpass
B
Central Wavelength
435
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
390.0, 390.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo0616b
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0616b.tif
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2006-03-27T10:39:26-05:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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