81P/Wild scaled one in eighty thousand

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

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