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Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat
Futurism via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThat's Dinky to You Last year, NASA imagery taken by the Lucy spacecraft revealed that a tiny Moon...
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 6 days agoImages from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh's dynamic history
Colorado Springs Gazette· 6 days agoA little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by NASA's Lucy spacecraft - has a...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 5 days agoWhen the Arecibo Observatory dish in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost a powerful radio telescope and a unique radar instrument to map the...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
LiveScience· 6 days agoWhen NASA's Lucy mission flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023, it discovered an unexpected companion: a pair of fused moons that scientists named Selam. Now, researchers ...
Chinese Probe Achieves First-Ever Blast Off From Moon’s Far Side In Daring Rock Return
Forbes· 19 hours agoChina’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft has launched from the moon’s far side, the first-ever vehicle to do so....
Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 4 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 ...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 5 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 Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 6 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 ...
China just landed on the moon. And it released footage.
Mashable· 15 hours agoChina announced that, for the second time, it landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the...