Aug. 28th, 2018

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A preview of the trivia section for this week's newsletter of the Darien Rotary Club:

On this date in 1993, NASA’s Galileo unmanned probe, on its way to Jupiter for a multi-year mission, flew by the asteroid 243 Ida. During the fly-by, the probe discovered that the asteroid had a natural moon. The moon was named Dactyl and is believed to be either a fragment of Ida or another piece of the same object from which Ida was created. Although the Galileo spacecraft has had a massively-successful mission, it suffered from a major flaw with its radio antenna, making data downloads to Earth very slow. As a result, the images with Ida’s moon were not studied by NASA until February 1994.

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