28 August 1993
Galileo Ida Flyby
Galileo flies past asteroid Ida, becoming the second spacecraft encounter with an asteroid.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Ida in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Galileo flies past asteroid Ida, becoming the second spacecraft encounter with an asteroid.
Galileo images Ida's heavily cratered surface and extensive regolith during the close asteroid encounter.
Provenance
These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Ida. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.
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