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81P/Wild scaled one in eighty thousand
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Originally published here: 81P/Wild scaled one in eighty thousand by tato_713 - Thingiverse
These models were rendered using MATLAB R2016a the data of the Stardust mission from the PDS site.
The file's names explained: name_1_x_10_y.stl is 1 : x* 10^y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.
81P/Wild
Wild 2 is a quite active, nearly ellipsoidal, short period comet. These comets are originally from the Kuiper Belt, and were disrupted by Jupiter's gravity into a 6 year period orbit in September of 1974. It has big craters in its surface, most likely made by the material expelled from the comet rather than impact events.
- Type: Comet.
- Orbit: Sun.
- Orbital period: 6.408 yr.
- Composition: Icy body.
- Density: 0.6 g/cm3.
- Dimensions: 5.5 km × 4.0 km × 3.3 km
- Model scale: 1:4x104 (14 cm) 1:8x104 (7cm)
References
- "Farnham, T.L., T. Duxbury and J.-Y. Li, SHAPE MODELS OF COMET WILD 2, SDU-C-NAVCAM-5-WILD2-SHAPE-MODEL-V2.1, NASA Planetary Data System, 2005."
- Surf to STL function for MATLAB