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Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 4 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. The asteroid—officially ...
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Unlocks Asteroid Dinkinesh's Dynamic History
US News & World Report· 5 days agoA little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by NASA's Lucy spacecraft - has a surprisingly dynamic history, according to scientists, along with its moonlet Selam that is comprised ...
Moon orbiting 'dinky' asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together
Science Daily· 5 days agoThe Lucy team, which includes University of Maryland Professor of Astronomy and Geology Jessica Sunshine, detailed the unexpected finding in a paper published in the journal Nature on May 29 ...
Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 3 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 the sun that are typically composed of rocky, dusty, and metallic ...
New discovery challenges existing theories on how celestial bodies are formed
Courthouse News Service· 5 days agoDuring a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, also known as “Dinky,” in November 2023, the spacecraft...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoResearchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid...
NASA’s Asteroid Samples Upend Our Understanding Of Early Solar System
Forbes· 6 days agoIt’s humbling to realize that we are the first sentient beings to successfully sample Bennu, a...
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 5 days agoTake, for example, asteroid Dinkinesh, the first target of the NASA mission Lucy. As the spacecraft approached, the team were surprised to see an unexpected moon appear around the small asteroid ...
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 5 days agoImages from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on...
Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat
Futurism via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThat's Dinky to You Last year, NASA imagery taken by the Lucy spacecraft revealed that a tiny Moon...