29 October 1991
Galileo Gaspra Flyby
Galileo becomes the first spacecraft to make a close encounter with an asteroid when it passes Gaspra.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Gaspra in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Galileo becomes the first spacecraft to make a close encounter with an asteroid when it passes Gaspra.
Galileo images Gaspra as an irregular, heavily cratered asteroid with a surface layer of loose material.
Provenance
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