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Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 15 hours agoA 25-foot-long, bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, according to NASA. An asteroid is an inactive body orbiting ...
‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via AOL· 15 hours agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh's dynamic history
Colorado Springs Gazette· 3 days agoA little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by NASA's Lucy spacecraft - has a...
Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat
Futurism via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThat's Dinky to You Last year, NASA imagery taken by the Lucy spacecraft revealed that a tiny Moon...
Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSome of the material spun off from Dinkinesh fell back onto the asteroid, forming the equatorial...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 2 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.
Moon orbiting 'dinky' asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together
Science Daily· 3 days agoThe researchers noted that the unusual arrangement challenges existing theories about how asteroids and other celestial bodies formed over time and provides additional insight ...
Asteroid Dinky's 'Selam' is actually 2 moons fused together: NASA
Interesting Engineering· 3 days agoNASA's Lucy spacecraft stuns scientists with the discovery of two intertwined moons orbiting asteroid Dinkinesh.
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 3 days agoImages from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on...