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Dactyl meaning
A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.
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In strict dactylic hexameter, each of these feet would be a dactyl (a long and two short syllables), but classical meter allows for the substitution of a spondee (two long syllables) in place of a dactyl in most positions.
The craters are 300 and 200 meters in diameter, respectively. citation Orbit Diagram of potential orbits of Dactyl around Ida Dactyl's orbit around Ida is not precisely known.
A hendecasyllabic is a line with a never-varying structure: two trochees, followed by a dactyl, then two more trochees.
Dactyl is heavily cratered, like Ida, and consists of similar materials.
Dactyl may have suffered a major impact around 100 million years ago, which reduced its size.
Dactyl shares many characteristics with Ida.
From subsequent analysis of this data, Dactyl appears to be an SII subtype S type asteroid, and is spectrally different from 243 Ida.
Galileo recorded 47 images of Dactyl over an observation period of 5.5 hours in August 1993.
If in a circular orbit at the distance at which it was seen, Dactyl's orbital period is about 20 hours.
It is hypothesized that Dactyl may have been produced by partial melting within a Koronis parent body, while the 243 Ida region escaped such igneous processing.
The bright dot to the right is its moon, Dactyl.
The fifth foot is frequently a dactyl (around 95% of the time in Homer).
The first, known as Meyer's Bridge (or Law), is in the second foot: if the second foot is a dactyl, the two short syllables generally will be part of the same word-unit.
The second, known as Hermann's Bridge, is the same rule in the fourth foot: if the fourth foot is a dactyl, the two short syllables generally will be part of the same word-unit.
The two largest imaged craters on Dactyl were named Acmon and Celmis, after two of the mythological dactyls.