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Galileo spacecraft flies by asteroid Ida, discovers tiny moon

August 28, 2026, 14:25 UTC · Cape Canaveral, United States · Americas · no longer in the live window

NASA's Galileo spacecraft performed a flyby of asteroid Ida on Aug. 28, 1993, discovering a small moon.

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