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This GIF below is made (via giphy.com) from the new NAASA Goddard video Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object. It shows the comet moving at quite a clip!

This shouldn't be a surprise.

From the link in the question https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=16009 the coordinates for the first and last exposure are:

    RA             Dec            Time
09 47 45.181   +18 07 30.70    2019-10-12  13:44:39
09 48 17.077   +17 59 20.37    2019-10-12  20:42:23

In 7 hours the comet moved roughly 0.2 degrees!

From JPL's Horizons, the state vectors for the comet and Earth around the middle of the image sequence are:

      JDTDB        Calendar Date (TDB)        X     (km)      Y               Z               VX   (km/s)     VY              VZ
comet 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00, -1.9092457E+08,  2.9804744E+08,  3.2507629E+07, -1.3003446E+01, -2.9440986E+01, -2.7477326E+01
Earth 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00,  1.4082817E+08,  4.9358841E+07, -1.4600024E+03, -1.0121471E+01,  2.8065445E+01, -7.7695706E-04

The comet is about 416 million km from Earth, moving at roughly 64 km/s relative to Earth and 42 km/s relative to the solar system barycenter.

enter image description here

GIF below is from the new NAASA Goddard video Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object. It shows the comet moving at quite a clip!

This shouldn't be a surprise.

From the link in the question https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=16009 the coordinates for the first and last exposure are:

    RA             Dec            Time
09 47 45.181   +18 07 30.70    2019-10-12  13:44:39
09 48 17.077   +17 59 20.37    2019-10-12  20:42:23

In 7 hours the comet moved roughly 0.2 degrees!

From JPL's Horizons, the state vectors for the comet and Earth around the middle of the image sequence are:

      JDTDB        Calendar Date (TDB)        X     (km)      Y               Z               VX   (km/s)     VY              VZ
comet 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00, -1.9092457E+08,  2.9804744E+08,  3.2507629E+07, -1.3003446E+01, -2.9440986E+01, -2.7477326E+01
Earth 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00,  1.4082817E+08,  4.9358841E+07, -1.4600024E+03, -1.0121471E+01,  2.8065445E+01, -7.7695706E-04

The comet is about 416 million km from Earth, moving at roughly 64 km/s relative to Earth and 42 km/s relative to the solar system barycenter.

enter image description here

This GIF is made (via giphy.com) from the new NAASA Goddard video Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object. It shows the comet moving at quite a clip!

This shouldn't be a surprise.

From the link in the question https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=16009 the coordinates for the first and last exposure are:

    RA             Dec            Time
09 47 45.181   +18 07 30.70    2019-10-12  13:44:39
09 48 17.077   +17 59 20.37    2019-10-12  20:42:23

In 7 hours the comet moved roughly 0.2 degrees!

From JPL's Horizons, the state vectors for the comet and Earth around the middle of the image sequence are:

      JDTDB        Calendar Date (TDB)        X     (km)      Y               Z               VX   (km/s)     VY              VZ
comet 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00, -1.9092457E+08,  2.9804744E+08,  3.2507629E+07, -1.3003446E+01, -2.9440986E+01, -2.7477326E+01
Earth 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00,  1.4082817E+08,  4.9358841E+07, -1.4600024E+03, -1.0121471E+01,  2.8065445E+01, -7.7695706E-04

The comet is about 416 million km from Earth, moving at roughly 64 km/s relative to Earth and 42 km/s relative to the solar system barycenter.

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enter image description here

GIF below is from the new NAASA Goddard video Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object. It shows the comet moving at quite a clip!

This shouldn't be a surprise.

From the link in the question https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=16009 the coordinates for the first and last exposure are:

    RA             Dec            Time
09 47 45.181   +18 07 30.70    2019-10-12  13:44:39
09 48 17.077   +17 59 20.37    2019-10-12  20:42:23

In 7 hours the comet moved roughly 0.2 degrees!

From JPL's Horizons, the state vectors for the comet and Earth around the middle of the image sequence are:

      JDTDB        Calendar Date (TDB)        X     (km)      Y               Z               VX   (km/s)     VY              VZ
comet 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00, -1.9092457E+08,  2.9804744E+08,  3.2507629E+07, -1.3003446E+01, -2.9440986E+01, -2.7477326E+01
Earth 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00,  1.4082817E+08,  4.9358841E+07, -1.4600024E+03, -1.0121471E+01,  2.8065445E+01, -7.7695706E-04

The comet is about 416 million km from Earth, moving at roughly 64 km/s relative to Earth and 42 km/s relative to the solar system barycenter.

enter image description here

GIF below is from the new NAASA Goddard video Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object. It shows the comet moving at quite a clip!

This shouldn't be a surprise.

From the link in the question https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=16009 the coordinates for the first and last exposure are:

    RA             Dec            Time
09 47 45.181   +18 07 30.70    2019-10-12  13:44:39
09 48 17.077   +17 59 20.37    2019-10-12  20:42:23

In 7 hours the comet moved roughly 0.2 degrees!

From JPL's Horizons, the state vectors for the comet and Earth around the middle of the image sequence are:

      JDTDB        Calendar Date (TDB)        X     (km)      Y               Z               VX   (km/s)     VY              VZ
comet 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00, -1.9092457E+08,  2.9804744E+08,  3.2507629E+07, -1.3003446E+01, -2.9440986E+01, -2.7477326E+01
Earth 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00,  1.4082817E+08,  4.9358841E+07, -1.4600024E+03, -1.0121471E+01,  2.8065445E+01, -7.7695706E-04

The comet is about 416 million km from Earth, moving at roughly 64 km/s relative to Earth and 42 km/s relative to the solar system barycenter.

enter image description here

enter image description here

GIF below is from the new NAASA Goddard video Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object. It shows the comet moving at quite a clip!

This shouldn't be a surprise.

From the link in the question https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=16009 the coordinates for the first and last exposure are:

    RA             Dec            Time
09 47 45.181   +18 07 30.70    2019-10-12  13:44:39
09 48 17.077   +17 59 20.37    2019-10-12  20:42:23

In 7 hours the comet moved roughly 0.2 degrees!

From JPL's Horizons, the state vectors for the comet and Earth around the middle of the image sequence are:

      JDTDB        Calendar Date (TDB)        X     (km)      Y               Z               VX   (km/s)     VY              VZ
comet 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00, -1.9092457E+08,  2.9804744E+08,  3.2507629E+07, -1.3003446E+01, -2.9440986E+01, -2.7477326E+01
Earth 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00,  1.4082817E+08,  4.9358841E+07, -1.4600024E+03, -1.0121471E+01,  2.8065445E+01, -7.7695706E-04

The comet is about 416 million km from Earth, moving at roughly 64 km/s relative to Earth and 42 km/s relative to the solar system barycenter.

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GIF below is from the new NAASA Goddard video Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object. It shows the comet moving at quite a clip!

This shouldn't be a surprise.

From the link in the question https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=16009 the coordinates for the first and last exposure are:

    RA             Dec            Time
09 47 45.181   +18 07 30.70    2019-10-12  13:44:39
09 48 17.077   +17 59 20.37    2019-10-12  20:42:23

In 7 hours the comet moved roughly 0.2 degrees!

From JPL's Horizons, the state vectors for the comet and Earth around the middle of the image sequence are:

      JDTDB        Calendar Date (TDB)        X     (km)      Y               Z               VX   (km/s)     VY              VZ
comet 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00, -1.9092457E+08,  2.9804744E+08,  3.2507629E+07, -1.3003446E+01, -2.9440986E+01, -2.7477326E+01
Earth 2458769.250, 2019-Oct-12 18:00:00,  1.4082817E+08,  4.9358841E+07, -1.4600024E+03, -1.0121471E+01,  2.8065445E+01, -7.7695706E-04

The comet is about 416 million km from Earth, moving at roughly 64 km/s relative to Earth and 42 km/s relative to the solar system barycenter.

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