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while moving outbound from periapse. However, Cassini did not take any images of Polydeuces on that date. The only encounters where Cassini has taken resolved images of Polydeuces were on 22 May 2006, 10 May 2015, and 16 June 2015, at closest approach distances of 64089.9 km, 33997.8 km, and 34794.3 km, respectively. Cassinis two close encounters in 2015 provided the first images where Polydeuces was larger than 10 pixels across.