951 Gaspra
S-type asteroid in the inner asteroid belt with stony mineralogical composition
951 Gaspra
951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt. Gaspra was discovered by Russian astronomer G. N. Neujmin in 1916. Neujmin named it after Gaspra, a Black Sea retreat that was visited by his contemporaries, such as Gorky and Tolstoy. Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited by a spacecraft when it was visited by the Galileo spacecraft, which flew by on its way to Jupiter on 29 October 1991.
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