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First Close Approach to an Asteroid
 
 

 

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First Close Approach to an Asteroid

Date: 29 Oct 1991
This picture of asteroid Gaspra is a mosaic of two images taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1991, during the first close approach of a spacecraft to an asteroid.

Original caption is available here.


Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
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