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‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via AOL· 19 hours agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
NASA’s Asteroid Samples Upend Our Understanding Of Early Solar System
Forbes· 4 days agoSamples from the carbon rich Bennu are already providing new clues about the ubiquity and diversity...
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 3 days agoScientists say this complicated...Selam have significant internal strength and a complex, dynamic...
New Telescope Images of Io are so Good, it Looks like a Spacecraft Took Them
Universe Today· 8 hours agoWith two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m (~27.5 ft), it has a collecting area slightly greater than...
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 ...
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,...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoResearchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid...
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Reveals Surprising Complexity of Asteroid Dinkinesh
ExtremeTech· 23 hours agoThe last few years have been an exciting time for studying asteroids. NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on course to investigate Jupiter's trojan asteroids later ...
How NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(Image credit: NASA/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin...encouraged by this first close...
Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe momentum of solar photons striking the surface, and then thermal photons emitted from the...