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- <text id=92TT2140>
- <title>
- Portrait of a Space Rock
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Sep. 28, 1992 The Economy
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- Portrait of a Space Rock
- </hdr><body>
- <p> On its way to study the planet Jupiter, the Galileo probe
- passed within 5,300 km (3,300 miles) of the asteroid 951 Gaspra,
- and scientists instructed it to take the first closeup ever of
- such an object. The irregular shape suggests that Gaspra was
- chipped from a larger body in a mammoth collision.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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