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‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 6 days agoA 25-foot-long, bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, according to NASA. An asteroid is an inactive body orbiting ...
Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPotentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into...
Asteroid’s double moon points to a complex history
EarthSky· 2 days agoA new study of asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon Selam, led by researchers at Southwest Research Institute, shows a complex geological history for both...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 7 days agoAn asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form.
Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat
Futurism via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThat's Dinky to You Last year, NASA imagery taken by the Lucy spacecraft revealed that a tiny Moon...
Look! NASA’s Lucy Mission Stumbled Upon An Asteroid With Planet-Like Features
Inverse· 2 days agoThe Lucy mission, named after the famous 3 million year old hominid fossil, is slated to visit the...
Why telling time on the moon is a conundrum for NASA
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThis week, learn why a lunar time scale is needed before humans return to the moon, meet the faces of Scotland’s ancient past, spy “salty licorice” cats,...
Sharper Than Ever – Io’s Volcanic Surfaces Revealed by New Telescope Technology
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter’s moon Io at a resolution never before...