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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh’s dynamic history
KFGO· 7 days agoBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by...
Asteroid’s double moon points to a complex history
EarthSky· 1 day agoA new study of asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon Selam, led by researchers at Southwest Research Institute, shows a complex geological history for both...
‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoResearchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid...
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Reveals Surprising Complexity of Asteroid Dinkinesh
ExtremeTech· 5 days 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 ...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 6 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.