Dactyl was photographed by the Galileo spacecraft. It is:

A) a moon of the asteroid Ida.
B) a moon of Halley's Comet.
C) one of the small moons of Jupiter, thought to be a captured asteroid.
D) one of the larger asteroids found in the asteroid belt.
E) an Earth-crossing asteroid.


A

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