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In the Solar System

Ida

A main-belt asteroid, here because Galileo flew past it in August 1993 on the way to Jupiter - and found the first moon ever seen round an asteroid, a kilometre-wide rock now called Dactyl. Until that picture it was an open question whether such a thing could exist; the moon's orbit also gave the first direct measurement of an asteroid's mass.

Radius
16 km

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