Fast Facts (cont'd)
• Comet
Halley
History's most famous comet also gives us one
of our annual meteor showers.
• Comet Hale-Bopp
With a nucleus so huge and bright, even
city-dwellers could see this one.
• Asteroid
Eros
We landed a spacecraft on this asteroid when
it passed close to Earth.
• Asteroid
Ida
This crater-pocked asteroid has its own tiny
moon.
• Asteroid
Vesta
A massive impact with another object left Vesta
scarred by a huge crater.
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