Studying images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope in Chile,Weaver and his colleagues found that C/LINEAR broke up into 16 fragments,which then disintegrated.

• 维沃和他的同事们研究从哈勃宇宙望远镜和智利的大型望远镜观察到的图像，发现C/LINEAR分裂成16个碎块。这些碎块随后继续分裂。