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In 1993 the spacecraft Galileo sent an image (Fig. 13-48) of asteroid 243 Ida and a tiny orbiting moon (now known as Dactyl), the first confirmed example of an asteroid-moon system. In the image, the moon, which is 1.5 km wide, is 100 km from the center of the asteroid, which is 55 km long. Assume the moon's orbit is circular with a period of 27 h. (a) What is the mass of the asteroid? (b) The volume of the asteroid, measured from the Galileo images, is 14 100 km3. What is the density (mass per unit volume) of the asteroid?
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Figure 13-48 Problem 56. A tiny moon (At right) orbits asteroid 243 Ida
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