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- THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYPortrait of a Space Rock
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- 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.
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