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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh’s dynamic history
KFGO· 21 hours agoBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
Live Science via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoResearchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 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· 23 hours agoScientists say this complicated...We want to understand the strengths of small bodies in our solar...
Just-discovered ‘dinky’ asteroid moon is actually something far stranger
Cosmos· 22 hours agoDinkinesh, the asteroid that was the first target of NASA’s Lucy mission to Jupiter, is still throwing up surprises. The first surprise came when the Lucy spacecraft zipped ...
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 22 hours 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 ...
Moon orbiting 'dinky' asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together
Science Daily· 1 day agoThe researchers noted that the unusual arrangement challenges existing theories about how asteroids and other celestial bodies formed over time and provides additional insight ...
New discovery challenges existing theories on how celestial bodies are formed
Courthouse News Service· 1 day agoDuring a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, also known as “Dinky,” in November 2023, the spacecraft...
Mars's Doomed Moon Phobos Might Not Be What We Thought
IFLScience· 3 days agoMars's moons Phobos and Deimos are a little different from the other moons of the solar system. While not as strange as the Earth's possible "ghost moon" (aka a Kordylewski ...