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Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 13 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 ...
Just-discovered ‘dinky’ asteroid moon is actually something far stranger
Cosmos· 14 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 ...
How Much Water Would a Self-Sustaining Moonbase Need?
Universe Today· 1 hour agoWhile resupplies from Earth would work for a time, eventually the lunar base would have to become self-sustaining? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address ...
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,...
Moon orbiting 'dinky' asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together
Science Daily· 22 hours agoThe researchers noted that the unusual arrangement challenges existing theories about how asteroids and other celestial bodies formed over time and provides additional insight ...
NASA’s Asteroid Samples Upend Our Understanding Of Early Solar System
Forbes· 2 days agoIt’s humbling to realize that we are the first sentient beings to successfully sample Bennu, a...
New discovery challenges existing theories on how celestial bodies are formed
Courthouse News Service· 22 hours agoDuring a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, also known as “Dinky,” in November 2023, the spacecraft...
Astronomers develop new observation technique to mitigate asteroid risks
China Daily· 4 days agoA collaborative research team from China and Ukraine has been monitoring near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) through regular observations to ...
How to see the best meteor showers: Days, times, observing tips
Astronomy Magazine· 15 hours agoSeveral times during the year, Earth encounters swarms of small particles that greatly enhance the...
How can we protect satellites in Earth-moon space? This new software could help
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe moon seen from the Artemis 1 Orion capsule on Dec. 5, 2022, near the end of the mission. As the...