243 Ida is an asteroid in the Koronis family of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory and named after a nymph from Greek mythology. Later telescopic observations categorized Ida as an S-type asteroid, the most numerous type in the inner asteroid belt. On 28 August 1993, Ida was visited by the uncrewed Galileo spacecraft while en route to Jupiter. It was the second asteroid visited by a spacecraft and the first found to have a natural satellite.
Galileo image of 243 Ida. Pola Regio is located on the right "tip" of the asteroid. The dot to the right is its moon Dactyl. | |
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Johann Palisa |
Discovery site | Vienna Observatory |
Discovery date | September 29, 1884 |
Designations | |
(243) Ida | |
Pronunciation | /ˈaɪdə/ |
Named after | Ida (nurse of Zeus) |
Minor planet category | Main belt (Koronis family) |
Adjectives | Idean (Idæan) /aɪˈdiːən/ |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
Aphelion | 2.979 AU (4.457×1011 m) |
Perihelion | 2.743 AU (4.103×1011 m) |
Semi-major axis | 2.861 AU (4.280×1011 m) |
Eccentricity | 0.0411 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 1,767.644 days (4.83955 a) |
Average orbital speed | 0.2036°/d |
Mean anomaly | 38.707° |
Inclination | 1.132° |
Longitude of ascending node | 324.016° |
Argument of perihelion | 110.961° |
Known satellites | Dactyl |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 59.8 × 25.4 × 18.6 km |
Mean radius | 15.7 km |
Mass | 4.2 ± 0.6 ×1016 kg |
Mean density | 2.6 ± 0.5 g/cm3 |
Equatorial surface gravity | 0.3–1.1 cm/s2 |
Synodic rotation period | 4.63 hours (0.193 d) |
North pole right ascension | 168.76° |
North pole declination | −87.12° |
Geometric albedo | 0.2383 |
Temperature | 200 K (−73 °C) |
Spectral type | S |
Absolute magnitude (H) | 9.94 |
Ida's orbit lies between the planets Mars and Jupiter, like all main-belt asteroids. Its orbital period is 4.84 years, and its rotation period is 4.63 hours. Ida has an average diameter of 31.4 km (19.5 mi). It is irregularly shaped and elongated, apparently composed of two large objects connected together. Its surface is one of the most heavily cratered in the Solar System, featuring a wide variety of crater sizes and ages.
Ida's moon Dactyl was discovered by mission member Ann Harch in images returned from Galileo. It was named after the Dactyls, creatures which inhabited Mount Ida in Greek mythology. Dactyl is only 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) in diameter, about 1/20 the size of Ida. Its orbit around Ida could not be determined with much accuracy, but the constraints of possible orbits allowed a rough determination of Ida's density and revealed that it is depleted of metallic minerals. Dactyl and Ida share many characteristics, suggesting a common origin.
The images returned from Galileo and the subsequent measurement of Ida's mass provided new insights into the geology of S-type asteroids. Before the Galileo flyby, many different theories had been proposed to explain their mineral composition. Determining their composition permits a correlation between meteorites falling to the Earth and their origin in the asteroid belt. Data returned from the flyby pointed to S-type asteroids as the source for the ordinary chondrite meteorites, the most common type found on the Earth's surface.
Discovery and observations
Ida was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at the Vienna Observatory. It was his 45th asteroid discovery. Ida was named by Moriz von Kuffner, a Viennese brewer and amateur astronomer. In Greek mythology, Ida was a nymph of Crete who raised the god Zeus. Ida was recognized as a member of the Koronis family by Kiyotsugu Hirayama, who proposed in 1918 that the group comprised the remnants of a destroyed precursor body.
Ida's reflection spectrum was measured on 16 September 1980 by astronomers David J. Tholen and Edward F. Tedesco as part of the eight-color asteroid survey (ECAS). Its spectrum matched those of the asteroids in the S-type classification. Many observations of Ida were made in early 1993 by the US Naval Observatory in Flagstaff and the Oak Ridge Observatory. These improved the measurement of Ida's orbit around the Sun and reduced the uncertainty of its position during the Galileo flyby from 78 to 60 km (48 to 37 mi).
Exploration
Galileo flyby
Ida was visited in 1993 by the Jupiter-bound space probe Galileo. Its encounters of the asteroids Gaspra and Ida were secondary to the Jupiter mission. These were selected as targets in response to a new NASA policy directing mission planners to consider asteroid flybys for all spacecraft crossing the belt. No prior missions had attempted such a flyby.Galileo was launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-34 on 18 October 1989. Changing Galileo's trajectory to approach Ida required that it consume 34 kg (75 lb) of propellant. Mission planners delayed the decision to attempt a flyby until they were certain that this would leave the spacecraft enough propellant to complete its Jupiter mission.
Galileo's trajectory carried it into the asteroid belt twice on its way to Jupiter. During its second crossing, it flew by Ida on 28 August 1993 at a speed of 12,400 m/s (41,000 ft/s) relative to the asteroid. The onboard imager observed Ida from a distance of 240,350 km (149,350 mi) to its closest approach of 2,390 km (1,490 mi). Ida was the second asteroid, after Gaspra, to be imaged by a spacecraft. About 95% of Ida's surface came into view of the probe during the flyby.
Transmission of many Ida images was delayed due to a permanent failure in the spacecraft's high-gain antenna. The first five images were received in September 1993. These comprised a high-resolution mosaic of the asteroid at a resolution of 31–38 m/pixel. The remaining images were sent in February 1994, when the spacecraft's proximity to the Earth allowed higher speed transmissions.
Discoveries
The data returned from the Galileo flybys of Gaspra and Ida, and the later NEAR Shoemaker asteroid mission, permitted the first study of asteroid geology. Ida's relatively large surface exhibited a diverse range of geological features. The discovery of Ida's moon Dactyl, the first confirmed satellite of an asteroid, provided additional insights into Ida's composition.
Ida is classified as an S-type asteroid based on ground-based spectroscopic measurements. The composition of S-types was uncertain before the Galileo flybys, but was interpreted to be either of two minerals found in meteorites that had fallen to the Earth: ordinary chondrite (OC) and stony-iron. Estimates of Ida's density are constrained to less than 3.2 g/cm3 by the long-term stability of Dactyl's orbit. This all but rules out a stony-iron composition; were Ida made of 5 g/cm3 iron- and nickel-rich material, it would have to contain more than 40% empty space.
The Galileo images also led to the discovery that space weathering was taking place on Ida, a process which causes older regions to become more red in color over time. The same process affects both Ida and its moon, although Dactyl shows a lesser change. The weathering of Ida's surface revealed another detail about its composition: the reflection spectra of freshly exposed parts of the surface resembled that of OC meteorites, but the older regions matched the spectra of S-type asteroids.
Both of these discoveries—the space weathering effects and the low density—led to a new understanding about the relationship between S-type asteroids and OC meteorites. S-types are the most numerous kind of asteroid in the inner part of the asteroid belt. OC meteorites are, likewise, the most common type of meteorite found on the Earth's surface. The reflection spectra measured by remote observations of S-type asteroids, however, did not match that of OC meteorites. The Galileo flyby of Ida found that some S-types, particularly the Koronis family, could be the source of these meteorites.
Physical characteristics
Ida's mass is between 3.65 and 4.99 × 1016 kg. Its gravitational field produces an acceleration of about 0.3 to 1.1 cm/s2 over its surface. This field is so weak that an astronaut standing on its surface could leap from one end of Ida to the other, and an object moving in excess of 20 m/s (70 ft/s) could escape the asteroid entirely.
Ida is a distinctly elongated asteroid, with an irregular surface. Ida is 2.35 times as long as it is wide, and a "waist" separates it into two geologically dissimilar halves. This constricted shape is consistent with Ida being made of two large, solid components, with loose debris filling the gap between them. However, no such debris was seen in high-resolution images captured by Galileo. Although there are a few steep slopes tilting up to about 50° on Ida, the slope generally does not exceed 35°. Ida's irregular shape is responsible for the asteroid's very uneven gravitational field. The surface acceleration is lowest at the extremities because of their high rotational speed. It is also low near the "waist" because the mass of the asteroid is concentrated in the two halves, away from this location.
Surface features
Ida's surface appears heavily cratered and mostly gray, although minor color variations mark newly formed or uncovered areas. Besides craters, other features are evident, such as grooves, ridges, and protrusions. Ida is covered by a thick layer of regolith, loose debris that obscures the solid rock beneath. The largest, boulder-sized, debris fragments are called , several of which have been observed on the surface.
Regolith
The surface of Ida is covered in a blanket of pulverized rock, called regolith, about 50–100 m (160–330 ft) thick. This material is produced in impact events and redistributed across Ida's surface by geological processes.Galileo observed evidence of recent downslope regolith movement.
Ida's regolith is composed of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene. Its appearance changes over time through a process called space weathering. Because of this process, older regolith appears more red in color compared to freshly exposed material.
About 20 large (40–150 m across) ejecta blocks have been identified, embedded in Ida's regolith. Ejecta blocks constitute the largest pieces of the regolith. Because ejecta blocks are expected to break down quickly by impact events, those present on the surface must have been either formed recently or uncovered by an impact event. Most of them are located within the craters Lascaux and Mammoth, but they may not have been produced there. This area attracts debris due to Ida's irregular gravitational field. Some blocks may have been ejected from the young crater Azzurra on the opposite side of the asteroid.
Structures
Several major structures mark Ida's surface. The asteroid appears to be split into two halves, here referred to as region 1 and region 2, connected by a "waist". This feature may have been filled in by debris, or blasted out of the asteroid by impacts.
Region 1 of Ida contains two major structures. One is a prominent 40 km (25 mi) ridge named Townsend Dorsum that stretches 150 degrees around Ida's surface. The other structure is a large indentation named Vienna Regio.
Ida's region 2 features several sets of grooves, most of which are 100 m (330 ft) wide or less and up to 4 km (2.5 mi) long. They are located near, but are not connected with, the craters Mammoth, Lascaux, and Kartchner. Some grooves are related to major impact events, for example a set opposite Vienna Regio.
Craters
Ida is one of the most densely cratered bodies yet explored in the Solar System, and impacts have been the primary process shaping its surface. Cratering has reached the saturation point, meaning that new impacts erase evidence of old ones, leaving the total crater count roughly the same. It is covered with craters of all sizes and stages of degradation, and ranging in age from fresh to as old as Ida itself. The oldest may have been formed during the breakup of the Koronis family parent body. The largest crater, Lascaux, is almost 12 km (7.5 mi) across. Region 2 contains nearly all of the craters larger than 6 km (3.7 mi) in diameter, but Region 1 has no large craters at all. Some craters are arranged in chains.
Ida's major craters are named after caves and lava tubes on Earth. The crater Azzurra, for example, is named after a submerged cave on the island of Capri, also known as the Blue Grotto. Azzurra seems to be the most recent major impact on Ida. The ejecta from this collision is distributed discontinuously over Ida and is responsible for the large-scale color and albedo variations across its surface. An exception to the crater morphology is the fresh, asymmetric Fingal, which has a sharp boundary between the floor and wall on one side. Another significant crater is Afon, which marks Ida's prime meridian.
The craters are simple in structure: bowl-shaped with no flat bottoms and no central peaks. They are distributed evenly around Ida, except for a protrusion north of crater Choukoutien which is smoother and less cratered. The ejecta excavated by impacts is deposited differently on Ida than on planets because of its rapid rotation, low gravity and irregular shape.Ejecta blankets settle asymmetrically around their craters, but fast-moving ejecta that escapes from the asteroid is permanently lost.
Composition
Ida was classified as an S-type asteroid based on the similarity of its reflectance spectra with similar asteroids. S-types may share their composition with stony-iron or ordinary chondrite (OC) meteorites. The composition of the interior has not been directly analyzed, but is assumed to be similar to OC material based on observed surface color changes and Ida's bulk density of 2.27–3.10 g/cm3. OC meteorites contain varying amounts of the silicates olivine and pyroxene, iron, and feldspar. Olivine and pyroxene were detected on Ida by Galileo. The mineral content appears to be homogeneous throughout its extent. Galileo found minimal variations on the surface, and the asteroid's spin indicates a consistent density. Assuming that its composition is similar to OC meteorites, which range in density from 3.48 to 3.64 g/cm3, Ida would have a porosity of 11–42%.
Ida's interior probably contains some amount of impact-fractured rock, called megaregolith. The megaregolith layer of Ida extends between hundreds of meters below the surface to a few kilometers. Some rock in Ida's core may have been fractured below the large craters Mammoth, Lascaux, and Undara.
Orbit and rotation
Ida is a member of the Koronis family of asteroid-belt asteroids. Ida orbits the Sun at an average distance of 2.862 AU (428.1 Gm), between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Ida takes 4.84089 years to complete one orbit.
Ida rotates in the retrograde direction with a rotation period of 4.63 hours (roughly 5 hours). The calculated maximum moment of inertia of a uniformly dense object the same shape as Ida coincides with the spin axis of the asteroid. This suggests that there are no major variations of density within the asteroid. Ida's axis of rotation precesses with a period of 77 thousand years, due to the gravity of the Sun acting upon the nonspherical shape of the asteroid.
Origin
Ida originated in the breakup of the roughly 120 km (75 mi) diameter Koronis parent body. The progenitor asteroid had partially differentiated, with heavier metals migrating to the core. Ida carried away insignificant amounts of this core material. It is uncertain how long ago the disruption event occurred. According to an analysis of Ida's cratering processes, its surface is more than a billion years old. However, this is inconsistent with the estimated age of the Ida–Dactyl system of less than 100 million years; it is unlikely that Dactyl, due to its small size, could have escaped being destroyed in a major collision for longer. The difference in age estimates may be explained by an increased rate of cratering from the debris of the Koronis parent body's destruction.
Dactyl
Highest-resolution image of Dactyl, recorded while Galileo was about 3,900 km away from the moon | |
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Ann Harch |
Discovery site | Galileo spacecraft |
Discovery date | 17 February 1994 |
Designations | |
(243) Ida I Dactyl | |
Pronunciation | /ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til |
Named after | Dactyls |
Alternative designations | 1993 (243) 1 |
Adjectives | Dactylian /dækˈtɪliən/ |
Orbital characteristics | |
Semi-major axis | 90 km at time of discovery |
Orbital period (sidereal) | prograde, ca. 20 h |
Inclination | ca. 8° |
Satellite of | Ida |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 1.6×1.4×1.2 km |
Equatorial escape velocity | 0.895m/s |
Synodic rotation period | synchronous |
Temperature | 200 K (−73 °C; −100 °F) |
Ida has a moon named Dactyl, official designation (243) Ida I Dactyl. It was discovered in images taken by the Galileo spacecraft during its flyby in 1993. These images provided the first direct confirmation of an asteroid moon. At the time, it was separated from Ida by a distance of 90 kilometres (56 mi), moving in a prograde orbit. Dactyl is heavily cratered, like Ida, and consists of similar materials. Its origin is uncertain, but evidence from the flyby suggests that it originated as a fragment of the Koronis parent body.
Discovery
Dactyl was found on 17 February 1994 by Galileo mission member Ann Harch, while examining delayed image downloads from the spacecraft.Galileo recorded 47 images of Dactyl over an observation period of 5.5 hours in August 1993. The spacecraft was 10,760 kilometres (6,690 mi) from Ida and 10,870 kilometres (6,750 mi) from Dactyl when the first image of the moon was captured, 14 minutes before Galileo made its closest approach.
Dactyl was initially designated 1993 (243) 1. It was named by the International Astronomical Union in 1994, for the mythological dactyls who inhabited Mount Ida on the island of Crete.
Physical characteristics
Dactyl is an "egg-shaped" but "remarkably spherical" object measuring 1.6 by 1.4 by 1.2 kilometres (0.99 by 0.87 by 0.75 mi). It is oriented with its longest axis pointing towards Ida. Like Ida, Dactyl's surface exhibits saturation cratering. It is marked by more than a dozen craters with a diameter greater than 80 m (260 ft), indicating that the moon has suffered many collisions during its history. At least six craters form a linear chain, suggesting that it was caused by locally produced debris, possibly ejected from Ida. Dactyl's craters may contain central peaks, unlike those found on Ida. These features, and Dactyl's spheroidal shape, imply that the moon is gravitationally controlled despite its small size. Like Ida, its average temperature is about 200 K (−73 °C; −100 °F).
Dactyl shares many characteristics with Ida. Their albedos and reflection spectra are very similar. The small differences indicate that the space weathering process is less active on Dactyl. Its small size would make the formation of significant amounts of regolith impossible. This contrasts with Ida, which is covered by a deep layer of regolith.
The two largest imaged craters on Dactyl were named Acmon /ˈækmən/ and Celmis /ˈsɛlmɪs/, after two of the mythological dactyls. Acmon is the largest crater in the above image, and Celmis is near the bottom of the image, mostly obscured in shadow. The craters are 300 and 200 meters in diameter, respectively.
Orbit
Dactyl's orbit around Ida is not precisely known. Galileo was in the plane of Dactyl's orbit when most of the images were taken, which made determining its exact orbit difficult. Dactyl orbits in the prograde direction and is inclined about 8° to Ida's equator. Based on computer simulations, Dactyl's pericenter must be more than about 65 km (40 mi) from Ida for it to remain in a stable orbit. The range of orbits generated by the simulations was narrowed down by the necessity of having the orbits pass through points at which Galileo observed Dactyl to be at 16:52:05 UT on 28 August 1993, about 90 km (56 mi) from Ida at longitude 85°. On 26 April 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope observed Ida for eight hours and was unable to spot Dactyl. It would have been able to observe it if it were more than about 700 km (430 mi) from Ida.
If in a circular orbit at the distance at which it was seen, Dactyl's orbital period would be about 20 hours. Its orbital speed is roughly 10 m/s (33 ft/s), "about the speed of a fast run or a slowly thrown baseball".
Age and origin
Dactyl may have originated at the same time as Ida, from the disruption of the Koronis parent body. However, it may have formed more recently, perhaps as ejecta from a large impact on Ida. It is extremely unlikely that it was captured by Ida. Dactyl may have suffered a major impact around 100 million years ago, which reduced its size.
See also
- List of geological features on 243 Ida and Dactyl
- List of minor planets
Notes
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- Wilson, Keil & Love 1999, p. 479
- Ridpath 1897, p. 206
- Schmadel 2003, p. 36
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- NASA 2005
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- Zellner, Tholen & Tedesco 1985, pp. 357, 373
- Zellner, Tholen & Tedesco 1985, p. 404
The Eos and Koronis families ... are entirely of type S, which is rare at their heliocentric distances ...
- Zellner, Tholen & Tedesco 1985, p. 410
- Owen & Yeomans 1994, p. 2295
- D'Amario, Bright & Wolf 1992, p. 26
- Chapman 1996, p. 699
- D'Amario, Bright & Wolf 1992, p. 24
- D'Amario, Bright & Wolf 1992, p. 72
- D'Amario, Bright & Wolf 1992, p. 36
- Sullivan et al. 1996, p. 120
- Cowen 1993, p. 215
Nearly a month after a successful photo session, the Galileo spacecraft last week finished radioing to Earth a high-resolution portrait of the second asteroid ever to be imaged from space. Known as 243 Ida, the asteroid was photographed from an average distance of just 3,400 kilometers some 3.5 minutes before Galileo's closest approach on Aug. 28.
- Chapman 1994, p. 358
- Chapman 1996, p. 707
- Chapman et al. 1994, p. 237
- Greeley et al. 1994, p. 469
- Monet et al. 1994, p. 2293
- Geissler, Petit & Greenberg 1996, p. 57
- Chapman et al. 1994, p. 238
- Chapman 1996, p. 709
- Byrnes & D'Amario 1994
- Chapman 1996, p. 710
- Chapman 1995, p. 496
- Petit et al. 1997, pp. 179–180
- Geissler et al. 1996, p. 142
- Lee et al. 1996, p. 99
- Geissler, Petit & Greenberg 1996, p. 58
- Chapman 1994, p. 363
- Bottke et al. 2002, p. 10
- Cowen 1995
- Lee et al. 1996, p. 96
- Greeley et al. 1994, p. 470
- Chapman 1996, p. 701
- Lee et al. 1996, p. 90
- Geissler et al. 1996, p. 141
- Sullivan et al. 1996, p. 132
- Lee et al. 1996, p. 97
- Stooke 1997, p. 1385
- Sárneczky & Kereszturi 2002
- Sullivan et al. 1996, p. 131
- Thomas & Prockter 2004
- Geissler, Petit & Greenberg 1996, pp. 57–58
- Chapman 1996, pp. 707–708
- USGS
- Greeley & Batson 2001, p. 393
- Bottke et al. 2002, p. 9
- Sullivan et al. 1996, p. 124
- Sullivan et al. 1996, p. 128
- Geissler et al. 1996, p. 155
- Wilson, Keil & Love 1999, p. 480
- Lewis 1996, p. 89
The chondrites fall naturally into five composition classes, of which three have very similar mineral contents, but different proportions of metal and silicates. All three contain abundant iron in three different forms (ferrous iron oxide in silicates, metallic iron, and ferrous sulfide), usually with all three abundant enough to be classified as potential ores. All three contain feldspar (an aluminosilicate of calcium, sodium, and potassium), pyroxene (silicates with one silicon atom for each atom of magnesium, iron, or calcium), olivine (silicates with two iron or magnesium atoms per silicon atom), metallic iron, and iron sulfide (the mineral troilite). These three classes, referred to collectively as the ordinary chondrites, contain quite different amounts of metal.
- Thomas & Prockter 2004, p. 21
- Sullivan et al. 1996, p. 135
- Slivan 1995, p. 134
- Greenberg et al. 1996, p. 117
- Hurford & Greenberg 2000, p. 1595
- Carroll & Ostlie 1996, p. 878
- "dactyl". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- Edward Coleridge (1990) "The Argonautica" of Apollonius Rhodius, p. 42
- Petit et al. 1997, p. 177
- Belton & Carlson 1994
- Mason 1994, p. 108
- Green 1994
- Schmadel 2003, p. 37
- Pausanias & 5.7.6
When Zeus was born, Rhea entrusted the guardianship of her son to the Dactyls of Ida, who are the same as those called Curetes. They came from Cretan Ida – Heracles, Paeonaeus, Epimedes, Iasius and Idas.
- Asphaug, Ryan & Zuber 2003, p. 463
- Chapman et al. 1994, p. 455
- "Planetary Names: Dactyl". IAU. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- Petit et al. 1997, p. 179
- Petit et al. 1997, p. 195
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External links
- Asteroids with Satellites, Robert Johnston, johnstonsarchive.net
- 243 Ida at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
- 243 Ida at the JPL Small-Body Database
243 Ida is an asteroid in the Koronis family of the asteroid belt It was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory and named after a nymph from Greek mythology Later telescopic observations categorized Ida as an S type asteroid the most numerous type in the inner asteroid belt On 28 August 1993 Ida was visited by the uncrewed Galileo spacecraft while en route to Jupiter It was the second asteroid visited by a spacecraft and the first found to have a natural satellite IdaGalileo image of 243 Ida Pola Regio is located on the right tip of the asteroid The dot to the right is its moon Dactyl DiscoveryDiscovered byJohann PalisaDiscovery siteVienna ObservatoryDiscovery dateSeptember 29 1884DesignationsMPC designation 243 IdaPronunciation ˈ aɪ d e Named afterIda nurse of Zeus Minor planet categoryMain belt Koronis family AdjectivesIdean Idaean aɪ ˈ d iː e n Orbital characteristicsEpoch 31 July 2016 JD 2457600 5 Aphelion2 979 AU 4 457 1011 m Perihelion2 743 AU 4 103 1011 m Semi major axis2 861 AU 4 280 1011 m Eccentricity0 0411Orbital period sidereal 1 767 644 days 4 83955 a Average orbital speed0 2036 dMean anomaly38 707 Inclination1 132 Longitude of ascending node324 016 Argument of perihelion110 961 Known satellitesDactylPhysical characteristicsDimensions59 8 25 4 18 6 kmMean radius15 7 kmMass4 2 0 6 1016 kgMean density2 6 0 5 g cm3Equatorial surface gravity0 3 1 1 cm s2Synodic rotation period4 63 hours 0 193 d North pole right ascension168 76 North pole declination 87 12 Geometric albedo0 2383Temperature200 K 73 C Spectral typeSAbsolute magnitude H 9 94 Ida s orbit lies between the planets Mars and Jupiter like all main belt asteroids Its orbital period is 4 84 years and its rotation period is 4 63 hours Ida has an average diameter of 31 4 km 19 5 mi It is irregularly shaped and elongated apparently composed of two large objects connected together Its surface is one of the most heavily cratered in the Solar System featuring a wide variety of crater sizes and ages Ida s moon Dactyl was discovered by mission member Ann Harch in images returned from Galileo It was named after the Dactyls creatures which inhabited Mount Ida in Greek mythology Dactyl is only 1 4 kilometres 0 87 mi in diameter about 1 20 the size of Ida Its orbit around Ida could not be determined with much accuracy but the constraints of possible orbits allowed a rough determination of Ida s density and revealed that it is depleted of metallic minerals Dactyl and Ida share many characteristics suggesting a common origin The images returned from Galileo and the subsequent measurement of Ida s mass provided new insights into the geology of S type asteroids Before the Galileo flyby many different theories had been proposed to explain their mineral composition Determining their composition permits a correlation between meteorites falling to the Earth and their origin in the asteroid belt Data returned from the flyby pointed to S type asteroids as the source for the ordinary chondrite meteorites the most common type found on the Earth s surface Discovery and observationsIda was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at the Vienna Observatory It was his 45th asteroid discovery Ida was named by Moriz von Kuffner a Viennese brewer and amateur astronomer In Greek mythology Ida was a nymph of Crete who raised the god Zeus Ida was recognized as a member of the Koronis family by Kiyotsugu Hirayama who proposed in 1918 that the group comprised the remnants of a destroyed precursor body Ida s reflection spectrum was measured on 16 September 1980 by astronomers David J Tholen and Edward F Tedesco as part of the eight color asteroid survey ECAS Its spectrum matched those of the asteroids in the S type classification Many observations of Ida were made in early 1993 by the US Naval Observatory in Flagstaff and the Oak Ridge Observatory These improved the measurement of Ida s orbit around the Sun and reduced the uncertainty of its position during the Galileo flyby from 78 to 60 km 48 to 37 mi ExplorationGalileo flyby Ida was visited in 1993 by the Jupiter bound space probe Galileo Its encounters of the asteroids Gaspra and Ida were secondary to the Jupiter mission These were selected as targets in response to a new NASA policy directing mission planners to consider asteroid flybys for all spacecraft crossing the belt No prior missions had attempted such a flyby Galileo was launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS 34 on 18 October 1989 Changing Galileo s trajectory to approach Ida required that it consume 34 kg 75 lb of propellant Mission planners delayed the decision to attempt a flyby until they were certain that this would leave the spacecraft enough propellant to complete its Jupiter mission Galileo s trajectory carried it into the asteroid belt twice on its way to Jupiter During its second crossing it flew by Ida on 28 August 1993 at a speed of 12 400 m s 41 000 ft s relative to the asteroid The onboard imager observed Ida from a distance of 240 350 km 149 350 mi to its closest approach of 2 390 km 1 490 mi Ida was the second asteroid after Gaspra to be imaged by a spacecraft About 95 of Ida s surface came into view of the probe during the flyby Transmission of many Ida images was delayed due to a permanent failure in the spacecraft s high gain antenna The first five images were received in September 1993 These comprised a high resolution mosaic of the asteroid at a resolution of 31 38 m pixel The remaining images were sent in February 1994 when the spacecraft s proximity to the Earth allowed higher speed transmissions Animation of Galileo s trajectory from 19 October 1989 to 30 September 2003 Galileo Jupiter Earth Venus 951 Gaspra 243 IdaTrajectory of Galileo from launch to Jupiter orbital insertionImages from the flyby starting 5 4 hours before closest approach and showing Ida s rotation Discoveries The data returned from the Galileo flybys of Gaspra and Ida and the later NEAR Shoemaker asteroid mission permitted the first study of asteroid geology Ida s relatively large surface exhibited a diverse range of geological features The discovery of Ida s moon Dactyl the first confirmed satellite of an asteroid provided additional insights into Ida s composition Ida is classified as an S type asteroid based on ground based spectroscopic measurements The composition of S types was uncertain before the Galileo flybys but was interpreted to be either of two minerals found in meteorites that had fallen to the Earth ordinary chondrite OC and stony iron Estimates of Ida s density are constrained to less than 3 2 g cm3 by the long term stability of Dactyl s orbit This all but rules out a stony iron composition were Ida made of 5 g cm3 iron and nickel rich material it would have to contain more than 40 empty space The Galileo images also led to the discovery that space weathering was taking place on Ida a process which causes older regions to become more red in color over time The same process affects both Ida and its moon although Dactyl shows a lesser change The weathering of Ida s surface revealed another detail about its composition the reflection spectra of freshly exposed parts of the surface resembled that of OC meteorites but the older regions matched the spectra of S type asteroids Polished section of an ordinary chondrite meteorite Both of these discoveries the space weathering effects and the low density led to a new understanding about the relationship between S type asteroids and OC meteorites S types are the most numerous kind of asteroid in the inner part of the asteroid belt OC meteorites are likewise the most common type of meteorite found on the Earth s surface The reflection spectra measured by remote observations of S type asteroids however did not match that of OC meteorites The Galileo flyby of Ida found that some S types particularly the Koronis family could be the source of these meteorites Physical characteristicsSize comparison of Ida several other asteroids the dwarf planet Ceres and MarsSuccessive images of a rotating Ida Ida s mass is between 3 65 and 4 99 1016 kg Its gravitational field produces an acceleration of about 0 3 to 1 1 cm s2 over its surface This field is so weak that an astronaut standing on its surface could leap from one end of Ida to the other and an object moving in excess of 20 m s 70 ft s could escape the asteroid entirely Ida is a distinctly elongated asteroid with an irregular surface Ida is 2 35 times as long as it is wide and a waist separates it into two geologically dissimilar halves This constricted shape is consistent with Ida being made of two large solid components with loose debris filling the gap between them However no such debris was seen in high resolution images captured by Galileo Although there are a few steep slopes tilting up to about 50 on Ida the slope generally does not exceed 35 Ida s irregular shape is responsible for the asteroid s very uneven gravitational field The surface acceleration is lowest at the extremities because of their high rotational speed It is also low near the waist because the mass of the asteroid is concentrated in the two halves away from this location Surface featuresMosaic of images recorded by Galileo 3 5 minutes before its closest approach Ida s surface appears heavily cratered and mostly gray although minor color variations mark newly formed or uncovered areas Besides craters other features are evident such as grooves ridges and protrusions Ida is covered by a thick layer of regolith loose debris that obscures the solid rock beneath The largest boulder sized debris fragments are called several of which have been observed on the surface Regolith The surface of Ida is covered in a blanket of pulverized rock called regolith about 50 100 m 160 330 ft thick This material is produced in impact events and redistributed across Ida s surface by geological processes Galileo observed evidence of recent downslope regolith movement Ida s regolith is composed of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene Its appearance changes over time through a process called space weathering Because of this process older regolith appears more red in color compared to freshly exposed material Galileo image of a 150 m 490 ft block at 24 8 S 2 8 E About 20 large 40 150 m across ejecta blocks have been identified embedded in Ida s regolith Ejecta blocks constitute the largest pieces of the regolith Because ejecta blocks are expected to break down quickly by impact events those present on the surface must have been either formed recently or uncovered by an impact event Most of them are located within the craters Lascaux and Mammoth but they may not have been produced there This area attracts debris due to Ida s irregular gravitational field Some blocks may have been ejected from the young crater Azzurra on the opposite side of the asteroid Structures Several major structures mark Ida s surface The asteroid appears to be split into two halves here referred to as region 1 and region 2 connected by a waist This feature may have been filled in by debris or blasted out of the asteroid by impacts Region 1 of Ida contains two major structures One is a prominent 40 km 25 mi ridge named Townsend Dorsum that stretches 150 degrees around Ida s surface The other structure is a large indentation named Vienna Regio Ida s region 2 features several sets of grooves most of which are 100 m 330 ft wide or less and up to 4 km 2 5 mi long They are located near but are not connected with the craters Mammoth Lascaux and Kartchner Some grooves are related to major impact events for example a set opposite Vienna Regio Craters Ida is one of the most densely cratered bodies yet explored in the Solar System and impacts have been the primary process shaping its surface Cratering has reached the saturation point meaning that new impacts erase evidence of old ones leaving the total crater count roughly the same It is covered with craters of all sizes and stages of degradation and ranging in age from fresh to as old as Ida itself The oldest may have been formed during the breakup of the Koronis family parent body The largest crater Lascaux is almost 12 km 7 5 mi across Region 2 contains nearly all of the craters larger than 6 km 3 7 mi in diameter but Region 1 has no large craters at all Some craters are arranged in chains Asymmetric 1 5 km 0 93 mi wide crater Fingal at 13 2 S 39 9 E Ida s major craters are named after caves and lava tubes on Earth The crater Azzurra for example is named after a submerged cave on the island of Capri also known as the Blue Grotto Azzurra seems to be the most recent major impact on Ida The ejecta from this collision is distributed discontinuously over Ida and is responsible for the large scale color and albedo variations across its surface An exception to the crater morphology is the fresh asymmetric Fingal which has a sharp boundary between the floor and wall on one side Another significant crater is Afon which marks Ida s prime meridian The craters are simple in structure bowl shaped with no flat bottoms and no central peaks They are distributed evenly around Ida except for a protrusion north of crater Choukoutien which is smoother and less cratered The ejecta excavated by impacts is deposited differently on Ida than on planets because of its rapid rotation low gravity and irregular shape Ejecta blankets settle asymmetrically around their craters but fast moving ejecta that escapes from the asteroid is permanently lost CompositionIda was classified as an S type asteroid based on the similarity of its reflectance spectra with similar asteroids S types may share their composition with stony iron or ordinary chondrite OC meteorites The composition of the interior has not been directly analyzed but is assumed to be similar to OC material based on observed surface color changes and Ida s bulk density of 2 27 3 10 g cm3 OC meteorites contain varying amounts of the silicates olivine and pyroxene iron and feldspar Olivine and pyroxene were detected on Ida by Galileo The mineral content appears to be homogeneous throughout its extent Galileo found minimal variations on the surface and the asteroid s spin indicates a consistent density Assuming that its composition is similar to OC meteorites which range in density from 3 48 to 3 64 g cm3 Ida would have a porosity of 11 42 Ida s interior probably contains some amount of impact fractured rock called megaregolith The megaregolith layer of Ida extends between hundreds of meters below the surface to a few kilometers Some rock in Ida s core may have been fractured below the large craters Mammoth Lascaux and Undara Orbit and rotationOrbit and positions of Ida and five planets as of 9 March 2009 Ida is a member of the Koronis family of asteroid belt asteroids Ida orbits the Sun at an average distance of 2 862 AU 428 1 Gm between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter Ida takes 4 84089 years to complete one orbit Ida rotates in the retrograde direction with a rotation period of 4 63 hours roughly 5 hours The calculated maximum moment of inertia of a uniformly dense object the same shape as Ida coincides with the spin axis of the asteroid This suggests that there are no major variations of density within the asteroid Ida s axis of rotation precesses with a period of 77 thousand years due to the gravity of the Sun acting upon the nonspherical shape of the asteroid OriginIda originated in the breakup of the roughly 120 km 75 mi diameter Koronis parent body The progenitor asteroid had partially differentiated with heavier metals migrating to the core Ida carried away insignificant amounts of this core material It is uncertain how long ago the disruption event occurred According to an analysis of Ida s cratering processes its surface is more than a billion years old However this is inconsistent with the estimated age of the Ida Dactyl system of less than 100 million years it is unlikely that Dactyl due to its small size could have escaped being destroyed in a major collision for longer The difference in age estimates may be explained by an increased rate of cratering from the debris of the Koronis parent body s destruction DactylDactylHighest resolution image of Dactyl recorded while Galileo was about 3 900 km away from the moonDiscoveryDiscovered byAnn HarchDiscovery siteGalileo spacecraftDiscovery date17 February 1994DesignationsMPC designation 243 Ida I DactylPronunciation ˈ d ae k t ɪ l DAK tilNamed afterDactylsAlternative designations1993 243 1AdjectivesDactylian d ae k ˈ t ɪ l i e n Orbital characteristicsSemi major axis90 km at time of discoveryOrbital period sidereal prograde ca 20 hInclinationca 8 Satellite ofIdaPhysical characteristicsDimensions1 6 1 4 1 2 kmEquatorial escape velocity0 895m sSynodic rotation periodsynchronousTemperature200 K 73 C 100 F Ida has a moon named Dactyl official designation 243 Ida I Dactyl It was discovered in images taken by the Galileo spacecraft during its flyby in 1993 These images provided the first direct confirmation of an asteroid moon At the time it was separated from Ida by a distance of 90 kilometres 56 mi moving in a prograde orbit Dactyl is heavily cratered like Ida and consists of similar materials Its origin is uncertain but evidence from the flyby suggests that it originated as a fragment of the Koronis parent body Discovery Dactyl was found on 17 February 1994 by Galileo mission member Ann Harch while examining delayed image downloads from the spacecraft Galileo recorded 47 images of Dactyl over an observation period of 5 5 hours in August 1993 The spacecraft was 10 760 kilometres 6 690 mi from Ida and 10 870 kilometres 6 750 mi from Dactyl when the first image of the moon was captured 14 minutes before Galileo made its closest approach Dactyl was initially designated 1993 243 1 It was named by the International Astronomical Union in 1994 for the mythological dactyls who inhabited Mount Ida on the island of Crete Physical characteristics Dactyl is an egg shaped but remarkably spherical object measuring 1 6 by 1 4 by 1 2 kilometres 0 99 by 0 87 by 0 75 mi It is oriented with its longest axis pointing towards Ida Like Ida Dactyl s surface exhibits saturation cratering It is marked by more than a dozen craters with a diameter greater than 80 m 260 ft indicating that the moon has suffered many collisions during its history At least six craters form a linear chain suggesting that it was caused by locally produced debris possibly ejected from Ida Dactyl s craters may contain central peaks unlike those found on Ida These features and Dactyl s spheroidal shape imply that the moon is gravitationally controlled despite its small size Like Ida its average temperature is about 200 K 73 C 100 F Dactyl shares many characteristics with Ida Their albedos and reflection spectra are very similar The small differences indicate that the space weathering process is less active on Dactyl Its small size would make the formation of significant amounts of regolith impossible This contrasts with Ida which is covered by a deep layer of regolith The two largest imaged craters on Dactyl were named Acmon ˈ ae k m e n and Celmis ˈ s ɛ l m ɪ s after two of the mythological dactyls Acmon is the largest crater in the above image and Celmis is near the bottom of the image mostly obscured in shadow The craters are 300 and 200 meters in diameter respectively Orbit Diagram of potential orbits of Dactyl around Ida Dactyl s orbit around Ida is not precisely known Galileo was in the plane of Dactyl s orbit when most of the images were taken which made determining its exact orbit difficult Dactyl orbits in the prograde direction and is inclined about 8 to Ida s equator Based on computer simulations Dactyl s pericenter must be more than about 65 km 40 mi from Ida for it to remain in a stable orbit The range of orbits generated by the simulations was narrowed down by the necessity of having the orbits pass through points at which Galileo observed Dactyl to be at 16 52 05 UT on 28 August 1993 about 90 km 56 mi from Ida at longitude 85 On 26 April 1994 the Hubble Space Telescope observed Ida for eight hours and was unable to spot Dactyl It would have been able to observe it if it were more than about 700 km 430 mi from Ida If in a circular orbit at the distance at which it was seen Dactyl s orbital period would be about 20 hours Its orbital speed is roughly 10 m s 33 ft s about the speed of a fast run or a slowly thrown baseball Age and origin Dactyl may have originated at the same time as Ida from the disruption of the Koronis parent body However it may have formed more recently perhaps as ejecta from a large impact on Ida It is extremely unlikely that it was captured by Ida Dactyl may have suffered a major impact around 100 million years ago which reduced its size See alsoList of geological features on 243 Ida and Dactyl List of minor planetsNotesRaab 2002 Noah Webster 1884 A Practical Dictionary of the English Language Holm 1994 Idaean Oxford English Dictionary Online ed Oxford University Press Subscription or participating institution membership required JPL 2008 Belton et al 1996 Britt et al 2002 p 486 Belton M J S Chapman C R Thomas P C Davies M E Greenberg R Klaasen K et al 1995 Bulk density of asteroid 243 Ida from the orbit of its satellite Dactyl Nature 374 6525 785 788 Bibcode 1995Natur 374 785B doi 10 1038 374785a0 S2CID 4333634 Thomas et al 1996 Vokrouhlicky Nesvorny amp Bottke 2003 p 147 Archinal Acton A Hearn et al 2018 p 6 15 16 Wilson Keil amp Love 1999 p 479 Ridpath 1897 p 206 Schmadel 2003 p 36 Berger 2003 p 241 NASA 2005 Chapman 1996 p 700 Zellner Tholen amp Tedesco 1985 pp 357 373 Zellner Tholen amp Tedesco 1985 p 404 The Eos and Koronis families are entirely of type S which is rare at their heliocentric distances Zellner Tholen amp Tedesco 1985 p 410 Owen amp Yeomans 1994 p 2295 D Amario Bright amp Wolf 1992 p 26 Chapman 1996 p 699 D Amario Bright amp Wolf 1992 p 24 D Amario Bright amp Wolf 1992 p 72 D Amario Bright amp Wolf 1992 p 36 Sullivan et al 1996 p 120 Cowen 1993 p 215 Nearly a month after a successful photo session the Galileo spacecraft last week finished radioing to Earth a high resolution portrait of the second asteroid ever to be imaged from space Known as 243 Ida the asteroid was photographed from an average distance of just 3 400 kilometers some 3 5 minutes before Galileo s closest approach on Aug 28 Chapman 1994 p 358 Chapman 1996 p 707 Chapman et al 1994 p 237 Greeley et al 1994 p 469 Monet et al 1994 p 2293 Geissler Petit amp Greenberg 1996 p 57 Chapman et al 1994 p 238 Chapman 1996 p 709 Byrnes amp D Amario 1994 Chapman 1996 p 710 Chapman 1995 p 496 Petit et al 1997 pp 179 180 Geissler et al 1996 p 142 Lee et al 1996 p 99 Geissler Petit amp Greenberg 1996 p 58 Chapman 1994 p 363 Bottke et al 2002 p 10 Cowen 1995 Lee et al 1996 p 96 Greeley et al 1994 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