A Glimmer in the Eye of WISE
wise_WISE2011-026 July 27th, 2011
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green, in this single frame taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The majority of the other dots are stars or galaxies far beyond our Solar System.
Astronomers discovered this object -- the first known Earth Trojan asteroid -- after sifting through asteroid candidates identified by WISE.
This image was taken in infrared light at a wavelength of 4.6 microns in Oct. 2010.
Provider: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Image Source: /image/wise/WISE2011-026
Curator: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Berkeley, CA, USA
Image Use Policy: Pulic Domain
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- ID
- WISE2011-026
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- 2010 TK7
- Credits
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
- Release Date
- 2011-07-27
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- /image/wise/WISE2011-026
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WISE
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 4600
- Start Time
- 2010-10-01T16:34
- Integration Time
- 7.7
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- FK5
- Equinox
- 2000
- Reference Value
- 93.7006742407703, -44.7897943899041
- Reference Dimension
- 1000, 1000
- Reference Pixel
- 500.5, 500.5
- Scale
- -7.70804300000000e-04, 7.61258900000000e-04
- Rotation
- -4.0406916335953
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
- URL
- http://wise.astro.ucla.edu
- Name
- outreach@ssl.berkeley.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 7 Gauss Way
- City
- Berkeley
- State/Province
- CA
- Postal Code
- 94720
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Pulic Domain
- Publisher
- Publisher ID
- wise
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- /image/wise/WISE2011-026
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- Metadata Date
- 2018-01-11T02:52:41Z
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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