Problems pasting or opening image in Illustrator

Hi,
I'm simply trying to paste an image onto Illustrator that's 150 px x 150 px, but for some reason Illustrator re-seizes it so it's 90 px x 90 px and it's really distorted. It's the same when I just open the image in Illustrator too. Anyone know why this may be happening?
Thanks alot.

are you basing that on your artboard measurements? I have my artboard in inches--yours must be in pixels, right? Well,
what about the native resolution of the Illustrator environment versus the dpi of your imported (placed) image? You are using the command File>Place, right?

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