PIA21259: Celestial Object 2016 WF9, a NEOWISE Discovery (Artist Concept)
 Target Name:  2016 WF9
 Mission:  NEOWISE
 Product Size:  3840 x 2400 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  IPAC-Caltech
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA21259.tif (7.012 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA21259.jpg (388.8 kB)

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An artist's rendition of 2016 WF9 as it passes Jupiter's orbit inbound toward the sun.

JPL manages NEOWISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, built the science instrument. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, built the spacecraft. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise, http://wise.astro.ucla.edu and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wise.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2016-12-29