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Depicts: Comet Linear, C/1999 S4 Copyright: NASA, Harold Weaver (the Johns Hopkins University), and the HST Comet LINEAR Investigation Team. Show in archive: true
In one stunning Hubble picture the fate of the mysteriously vanished solid nucleus of
Comet LINEAR has been settled. The Hubble picture shows that the comet nucleus
has been reduced to a shower of glowing "mini-comets" resembling the fiery fragments
from an exploding aerial firework.