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Image: Patroclus-Menoetius-orbit

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Description: Binary Trojan asteroid 617 Patroclus and its companion Menoetius, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope's WFC3 camera from 20 May 2017 to 14 June 2017. Images are public domain since 2017-09-14. Proposal ID 14928 (Keith S. Noll).
Title: Patroclus-Menoetius-orbit
Credit: Processed and extracted from HST Proposal 14928. Source images from datasets IDF501D2Q, IDF502G3Q, IDF503UWQ, IDF504IUQ, and IDF505MDQ.
Author: Hubble Space Telescope/Keith S. Noll (processing and animation is own work)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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