dactyl
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It takes many minutes, but Dactyl is eventually able to solve the puzzle.
From The Verge • Oct. 15, 2019
In 1991, the now-dissolved manufacturing arm of the Virtuality Group introduced a set of games, including the then-revolutionary Dactyl Nightmare, in arcades across the country.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2017
Although only 1.5 kilometers in diameter, smaller than many college campuses, Dactyl provides scientists with something otherwise beyond their reach—a measurement of the mass and density of Ida using Kepler’s laws.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Nearly a decade earlier the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft flew by Gaspra, 18 kilometres in its longest dimension, as well as by Ida, 31 kilometres across, and its moon Dactyl.
From Nature • Sep. 10, 2014
One thing there’ll always be more of on Dactyl Hill is dactyls.”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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