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                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 24, 1994                   TAG: 9403240172
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: PASADENA, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

ASTEROID FOUND TO HAVE OWN MOON

An asteroid much smaller than Earth's moon still can have a moon of its own. Just take a look at Ida.

The first photograph of a tiny moon near the asteroid Ida was unveiled Wednesday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was taken by a camera aboard the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft.

Galileo flew past Ida on Aug. 28, but the black-and-white pictures came to light only now because data transmissions were slowed by a faulty high-speed antenna.

by CNB