Editing 243 Ida (section)

=== Discovery ===
Dactyl was found on 17 February 1994 by ''Galileo'' mission member Ann Harch, while examining delayed image downloads from the spacecraft.<ref name="Holm1994" /> ''Galileo'' recorded 47 images of Dactyl over an observation period of 5.5 hours in August 1993.<ref name="PetitDurdaGreenbergHurford1997p177">{{harvnb|Petit|Durda|Greenberg|Hurford|1997|p=177}}</ref> The spacecraft was {{convert|10760|km|mi}} from Ida<ref name="BeltonCarlson1994">{{harvnb|Belton|Carlson|1994}}</ref> and {{convert|10870|km|mi}} from Dactyl when the first image of the moon was captured, 14 minutes before ''Galileo'' made its closest approach.<ref name="Mason1994p108">{{harvnb|Mason|1994|p=108}}</ref>

Dactyl was initially [[Astronomical naming conventions#Natural satellites of planets|designated]] 1993 (243) 1.<ref name="BeltonCarlson1994" /><ref name="Green1994">{{harvnb|Green|1994}}</ref> It was named by the [[International Astronomical Union]] in 1994,<ref name="Green1994" /> for the mythological [[dactyls (mythology)|dactyls]] who inhabited [[Mount Ida (Crete)|Mount Ida]] on the island of Crete.<ref name="Schmadel2003p37">{{harvnb|Schmadel|2003|p=37}}</ref><ref name="Pausanias576">{{harvnb|Pausanias|5.7.6}} {{quote|When Zeus was born, Rhea entrusted the guardianship of her son to the Dactyls of Ida, who are the same as those called Curetes. They came from Cretan Ida&nbsp;– Heracles, Paeonaeus, Epimedes, Iasius and Idas.}}</ref>