#dactyl

Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon - June 29th, 1997.

From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 17, 2025:

Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Galileo Mission This asteroid has a moon. The robot spacecraft Galileo enroute to explore the Jovian system in 1993, encountered and photographed two asteroids during its long interplanetary voyage. The second minor planet it photographed, 243 Ida, was discovered to have a moon. The tiny moon, named Dactyl, is only about 1.6 kilometers across and seen as a small dot to the right in the image. In contrast, Ida is much larger, measuring about 60 km long and 25 km wide. In fact, Dactyl is the first moon of an asteroid ever discovered. But now many asteroids are known to have moons. Minor planet names Ida and Dactyl were taken from Greek mythology. Starship Asterisk* APOD Discussion Page for Today's Image

In case you don't remember from poetry class in high school, here are the definitions: a dactylic word is a three-syllable word with the first syllable being stressed, but an anapestic word is a three-syllable word with the last syllable of three being stressed.

Dialogue (in case it’s hard to read):

Maddie: Uh… whatcha got there sweetie?

Jack: ???

Danny: A smoothie.

The website: https://hypotactic.com/latin/index.html?Use_Id=about

Just some sketches of random things.

(From the top left to the bottom right)

Ibis with Egyptian-style eye makeup, random eel-like creature,

My OC skekLammer as a skekling,

Random golden design, a velociraptor OC of mine I made up many years ago and decided to draw again,

A species of pterosaur I made up for a dactyl story of mine,

and a goa'uld, cause they are fun to draw.

Beneath the top sketch are basically just sketches of that raptor OC's emotions and such.