... Last October the Space Shuttle Discovery deployed Spartan 201, a spacecraft that monitored the corona of the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass . ... Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon . ... The robot spacecraft Galileo currently exploring the Jovian system, encountered and photographed two asteroids during its long journey to Jupiter. ... NASA probe Deep Space 1 zoomed past asteroid 9969 Braille last week as it continued to test its new ion drive in the inner Solar System. ...