Monitoring the Aftermath of an Asteroid Impact Event

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Jul 2008

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HST Proposal ID #12077. Cycle 17

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Our Director's Discretionary program {GO-12053} to image the newlydiscovered object P/2010 A2 executed successfully on 2010 Jan 25 and 29with spectacular results. Hubble has apparently borne witness to thefirst detection of a collision in the asteroid belt. Hubble imaging withthe WFC3 has revealed an object unlike anything ever seen before andwith details impossible to detect with any other facility. We request 6more orbits of Hubble time {1 orbit every 20 days over the next fewmonths, until the object enters Hubble's solar exclusion zone inlate-June 2010} to monitor the evolution of this remarkable object andfurther clarify the nature of this event. These observations may usherin a new era of searching for and characterizing collisional eventswithin the asteroid belt.;

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