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Galileo program
Galileo (spacecraft)Consideration of sending a probe to Jupiter began as early as 1959. NASA's Scientific Advisory Group for Outer Solar System Missions evaluated the…
243 IdaAustrian astronomer Johann Palisa spotted 243 Ida on the 29th of September 1884 from his post at Vienna Observatory. This marked his forty-fifth asteroid…
951 GaspraRussian astronomer G. N. Neujmin spotted 951 Gaspra in the year 1916. He chose a name that honored a specific place on Earth rather than a mythological…