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Description	English: his illustration shows the orbit of comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS (K2) on its maiden voyage into the solar system. The Hubble Space Telescope observed K2 when it was 1.5 billion miles from the Sun, halfway between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. The farthest object from the Sun depicted here is the dwarf planet Pluto, which resides in the Kuiper Belt, a vast rim of primordial debris encircling our solar system.
Date	28 September 2017
Source	NASA's Hubble Observes the Farthest Active Inbound Comet Yet Seen
Author	NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

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Source	STScI
Headline	Comet K2's Orbit
Credit/Provider	NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
Author	Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
Short title	Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Active Inbound Comet Yet Seen
Image title	This illustration shows the orbit of comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS (K2)on its maiden voyage into the solar system. The Hubble SpaceTelescope observed K2 when it was 1.5 billion miles from the Sun,halfway between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. The observationsrevealed a fuzzy cloud of dust, called a coma, surrounding the icyvisitor, evidence that the frozen comet is being warmed by the Sunand releasing material. K2 is the farthest active inbound cometever observed.K2 has been traveling toward the Sun for millions of years from itshome in the Oort Cloud, a spherical region at the edge of our solarsystem. The graphic shows the comet in its inbound journey, highabove the plane of the major planets' orbits. The orbits of thegiant planets, from Jupiter to Neptune, are also shown in thediagram. The farthest object from the Sun depicted here is thedwarf planet Pluto, which resides in the Kuiper Belt, a vast rimof primordial debris encircling our solar system.
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Date and time of data generation	28 September 2017
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Unique ID of original document	61D5CA2C7A7162D4ECC9A534A598867D
File change date and time	12:33, 25 September 2017
Date metadata was last modified	07:43, 27 September 2017
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Date and time of digitizing	04:53, 30 August 2017
Keywords	C/2017 K2 Pan-STARRS (K2)
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