Images of Asteroids

Images of 243 Ida and it's small moon by the Galileo spacecraft. More detailed information and comments are contained within the photo caption of the images. The moon have now been named Dactyl, or (243) Ida I (Dactyl) which is the full name (IAUC 6082).

• Ida in colour.
• Closeup of the limb.
• The first picture of Ida and it's moon.
• A closeup of Dactyl.
• 4 minutes before close encounter with 243 Ida the spacecraft took this high-resolution image of Dactyl
• The rotating Ida.

Radar images of 4769 Castalia created by Dr. Scott Hudson of Washington State University and Dr. Steven Ostro of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Asteroids, stars and galaxies represented in one image. 9 CCD frames of 958 Asplinda taken by J.Lagerros and F. Lahulla and reduced by M. Dahlgren.

The asteroid belt including the orbits of the Earth and Jupiter as of January 1, 1995.