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asteroid Hebe which, according to DSSI team-member Elliott Horch, “...is clearly resolved showing its distinct non-round appearance. The scale of the whole image shown is only about 0.5 x 0.5 arcseconds across!" The Principal Investigator for this work is Bill Merline (Southwest Research Institute). (inset in the lower right corner) shows the star KOI 2626, a candidate exoplanet host (based on observations with NASA’s Kepler mission).