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About the Object	Object Name: Comet Encke Object Type: Comet (Jupiter-family) Position (J2000): RA: 22:39:19.0 (time of observation) Dec: -13:40:24.4 (time of observation) Distance: 2.0 AU from Spitzer (at time of observation)
About the Data	Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kelley (Univ. of Minnesota) Instrument: MIPS Exposure Date: 2004-06-23 Exposure Time: 130 seconds Release Date: 11 January 2005
Observers	Robert Gehrz, Principal Investigator (Univ. of Minnesota) Charles Woodward (Univ. of Minnesota) Michael Kelley (Univ. of Minnesota) Elisha Polomski (Univ. of Minnesota) William Reach (Spitzer Science Center, Caltech)

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