Editing Dactyl

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Dactyl
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Dactyl243Ida-MainBeltAsteroidszip.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Dactyl and 243 Ida from ''MainBeltAsteroids051403.zip'' in Orbiter 2002P3'''
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
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|Name||align="right"|Dactyl
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|width="30%"|Reference body||align="right" width="30%"|[[243 Ida]]
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary mean orbits
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|width="30%"|Epoch||align="right" width="50%"|2003.441
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|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"|98000 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.088888888
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|0° <br> (0 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|0° <br> (0 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|180° <br> (3.141592654 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|0° <br> (0 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|700 km
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|4×10<sup>12</sup> kg
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Rotation elements
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|width="30%"|SidRotPeriod||align="right" width="30%"|74200 seconds (20.6111 hours)
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|width="30%"|SidRotOffset||align="right" width="30%"|0
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|width="30%"|Obliqutiy||align="right" width="30%"|0
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|width="30%"|LAN||align="right" width="30%"|0
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|width="30%"|Note||align="right" width="30%"|*Elements given are from Dactyl.cfg (MainBeltAsteroids051403.zip)
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'''243 Ida''' is a large asteroid shaped very elongated, perhaps a contact binary. It was discovered by [[w:Johann Palisa|Johann Palisa]] on 29 September 1884 and was named for [[w:Ida (nurse of Zeus)|a nurse]] of [[w:Zeus|Zeus]]. On 17 February 1994, Ida was discovered to boast a small moon (Dactyl) as it was imaged during the flyby of the [[w:Gallileo (spacecraft)|Gallileo spacecraft]] in 1993 as it flew by enroute to [[Jupiter]].

== Dactyl in Orbiter ==
243 Ida and Dactyl were first introduced with the release of MainBeltAsteroids051403.zip in May 2003.

Note that the landing surface as given in the config file is spherical, but the visual of these bodies are not, if you land, you will likely be above or below the visual surface.

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|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include 243 Ida and Dactyl'''</center>
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/main-belt-asteroids-v1-0.1435/ Main Belt Asteroids v1.0]||O-F Resources||v1.0||Unknown OHM Addon Developer||Scenery||14 May 2003||||
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== See also ==
[[w:243 Ida|243 Ida]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
[[w:Dactyl (moon)|Dactyl]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
243Ida-MainBeltAsteroidszip.jpg|<center>243 Ida in Orbiter 2002P3 from ''MainBeltAsteroids051403.zip''</center>
Dactyl243Ida-MainBeltAsteroidszip.jpg|<center>Dactyl (left) and 243 Ida in the distance from ''MainBeltAsteroids051403.zip'' in Orbiter 2002P3</center>
243 ida crop.jpg|<center>243 Ida imaged by [[w:Gallilio (spacecraft)|Gallileo]] on 28 August 1993</center>
Ida-approach.gif|<center>A sequence of images of Ida showing rotation during Gallileo approach.</center>
Dactyl1.jpg|<center>243 Ida's moon Dactyl</center>
</gallery>

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