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Moon (Dactyl) Discoved Orbiting Asteroid Ida

Posted by chrisd on from the trying-to-resist-bad-uranus/asteroids-joke dept.

Dot.Sig writes "Here is a picture and short description of an asteroid with its own moon." Taken by galileo during it's trip to jupiter. Sort of like those pics you take out the car window.... Here is the requisite NASA Press Release. Who names these thing, anyway? Not the first asteroid to be found to have a moon, but interesting regardless.

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  1. is this a joke or what? by alonsoac · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I really don't get this, is it supposed to be funny. Just to show how old this "news" are I named my first two computers Dactyl and Ida. Ida was a 486 and is now retired, stored somewhere in my closet. Dactyl is a Amd k6-2 300 mhz which I still have for playing music and games for my brothers. My point is somehow I knew about this a long time ago. What's it doing in the frontpage?