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'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
LiveScience· 5 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Maya Hawke makes candid ‘nepo’ admission about role in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Independent US via AOL· 18 hours agoAs Hawke’s career has gone from strength to strength, thanks to roles in Stranger Things, which she...
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...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 4 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...
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.
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
How NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun
SPACE.com· 4 days agoThe probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission to the asteroid Bennu and...
New discovery challenges existing theories on how celestial bodies are formed
Courthouse News Service· 6 days agoDuring a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, also known as “Dinky,” in November 2023, the spacecraft...