951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid orbiting very close to the inner edge of the main asteroid belt, discovered in 1916 by the Russian astronomer Grigory Neujmin, who named it after Gaspra, a Black Sea retreat visited by contemporaries of his such as the writers Maxim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy.
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- Discovery Year: 1916
Wikidata: 951 Gaspra
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Wikimedia Foundation951 Gaspra, Wikipedia - lead section, catalogue classification
951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt.
Targeted By: Galileo, Article text
Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited by a spacecraft when it was visited by the Galileo spacecraft, which flew by on its way to Jupiter on 29 October 1991.
In Group: Main-Belt Asteroids, Lead sentence
951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt.
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