Size of 3 Asteroids Imaged at Close Range (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Size of 3 Asteroids Imaged at Close Range

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These photos show the relative size of three asteroids that have been imaged at close range by spacecraft. Mathilde (37 x 29 miles) (left) was taken by the NEAR spacecraft on June 27, 1997. Images of the asteroids Gaspra (middle) and Ida (right) were taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

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NASA/JPL/NEAR and Galileo missions

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