range of geological features. The discovery of Ida's moon Dactyl, the first confirmed satellite of an asteroid, provided additional insights into Ida's...

S/1993 (243) 1. The satellite was named after the mythical creatures called dactyls, who, according to Greek mythology, lived on Mount Ida. Dactyl's orbit around...

have been called moonlets. Small asteroid moons (natural satellites of asteroids), such as Dactyl, have also been called moonlets. The upper limit is also...

parentheses. Thus, Dactyl, the moon of 243 Ida, was at first designated "S/1993 (243) 1". Once confirmed and named, it became (243) Ida I Dactyl. Similarly,...

asteroid moon was confirmed when the Galileo probe discovered the small Dactyl orbiting 243 Ida in the asteroid belt. The second was discovered around...

parentheses. Thus, Dactyl, the moon of 243 Ida, was at first designated "S/1993 (243) 1". Once confirmed and named, it became (243) Ida I Dactyl. Similarly,...

and that secondary minerals veins are filled in the cracks. Images from satellites orbiting Mars have detected cracks near impact craters. Areas of aqueous...

quasars Satellite galaxies List of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies List of Triangulum's suspected satellite galaxies...

relatively small satellite in orbit around the main component. Systems with a small minor-planet moon – also called "companion" or simply "satellite" – include...

ground-based telescope. Previously, the only known moon of an asteroid was Dactyl, discovered by the Galileo space probe, around 243 Ida. Petit-Prince is...

asteroid flyby, of 951 Gaspra, and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around 243 Ida. In 1994, Galileo observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision...

of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed....

nymph, after whom Mount Ida is named, where the mythical dactyls lived ((243) Ida I Dactyl) DMP · 243 244 Sita – Sita, Hindu wife of Rama DMP · 244 245...

uncertainties in the orbit of Petit-Prince. On the extremities of the long axis. Dactyl and Ida, another asteroid and asteroid moon system catalogued by astronomers...

may possess moons (such as, for example, asteroid 243 Ida with its satellite Dactyl). Clearwater East and Clearwater West are both complex craters with...

Solar System bodies (which includes the asteroids), all named natural satellites, and a number of smaller objects of historical or scientific interest...

geological features on Vesta List of geological features on 243 Ida and Dactyl List of craters on 253 Mathilde List of geological features on 433 Eros...

Veress and Miklós Rózsa. Hungarian traditional music tends to have a strong dactylic rhythm, as the language is invariably stressed on the first syllable of...

includes minor planets (asteroids and dwarf planets), planets, and natural satellites. All geological features of a body (including craters) are typically named...

that asteroids have satellites. It was 17 years later when the first asteroid moon was formally discovered (Dactyl, the satellite of 243 Ida). The discovery...

(September 19, 2015). Moons of the Solar System: From Giant Ganymede to Dainty Dactyl. Springer. p. 267. ISBN 978-3-319-20636-3. Retrieved January 23, 2018. Uesugi...

evolution of the minor planet belt and the dynamical evolution of the (243) Ida-Dactyl system. Name suggested and citation provided by A. Morbidelli JPL · 7740...

binary asteroids and asteroid satellites, which were not discovered until the Galileo spacecraft's flyby of 243 Ida and Dactyl 1993.: 808  Until 1989, contact...

2019. "DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory". National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. 2 May 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2024...

close-up was 951 Gaspra in 1991, followed in 1993 by 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl, all of which were imaged by the Galileo probe en route to Jupiter. Other...

approximate size of the smallest-known moons of Jupiter 1.4 km – diameter of Dactyl, the first confirmed asteroid moon 4.8 km – diameter of 5535 Annefrank,...

terrestrial telescopic observation. The great majority of Earth-orbiting satellites. Space probes leaving Earth orbit that are not concerned with Solar System...

satellites, which was almost universally rejected at the time, was later proven correct when the Galileo spacecraft photographed Dactyl, a satellite of...

2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine) Feldman, G.C. (1999f). 24 February: Satellites and Squid. (edited entry Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine) Feldman...

Toutatis (near-Earth asteroid) Methone (moon of Saturn) Hartley 2 (comet) Dactyl (moon of Ida) Ryugu (near-Earth asteroid) Dinkinesh (belt asteroid) Didymos...