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Physics News Update
Number 169 (Story #3), March 17, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

ASTEROID IDA SEEMS TO HAVE A MOON . Images taken last August by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter reveal a bright area near the asteroid which mission scientists believe is sunlight reflected from a subsidiary body. (Science News, 12 Mar.)