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Asteroid Gaspra

Asteroid 951, Asteroid Gaspra, was discovered in 1916 by Grigoriy N. Neujamin. The asteroid is named after a Black Sea resort.

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft came within 1000 miles of Gaspra during the first close fly-by of an asteroid by a space probe.

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