2025 October 17 - Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Show Notes
In today's image, we see the second asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft which was the asteroid Ida which was visited by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter in 1993. It was found to have a small moon orbiting it, which has been named Dactyl.
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