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‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Reveals Surprising Complexity of Asteroid Dinkinesh
ExtremeTech· 9 hours agoThe last few years have been an exciting time for studying asteroids. NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on course to investigate Jupiter's trojan asteroids ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh’s dynamic history
KFGO· 2 days 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· 2 days 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· 3 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 1 day 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.
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 2 days agoScientists say this complicated...We want to understand the strengths of small bodies in our solar...
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 2 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 ...
Just-discovered ‘dinky’ asteroid moon is actually something far stranger
Cosmos· 2 days 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 orbiting 'dinky' asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together
Science Daily· 3 days agoThe researchers noted that the unusual arrangement challenges existing theories about how asteroids and other celestial bodies formed over time and provides additional insight ...