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Description Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) that disintegrated around July 23, 2000.
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Source Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear: STScI-2000-27
Author Hubble Space Telescope
Credit: NASA, University of Hawaii, H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University)


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