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NASA's Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh's dynamic history
Reuters via AOL· 2 hours agoA little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by NASA's Lucy spacecraft - has a...
Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon
SPACE.com· 4 hours agoIn a silver lining, however, this has given Lucy the chance to test its prowess on a minor world in the asteroid belt before reaching the Trojans ...
New discovery challenges existing theories on how celestial bodies are formed
Courthouse News Service· 12 hours agoDuring a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, also known as “Dinky,” in November 2023, the spacecraft...
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 3 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· 3 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 ...
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 4 hours agoImages from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Finding The Age Of A Contact Binary "Moon"
Universe Today· 7 days agoThere are millions of asteroids floating around the solar system. A recent example of one of these weird configurations was discovered when Lucy, NASA’s mission to the < ...
Mars's Doomed Moon Phobos Might Not Be What We Thought
IFLScience· 2 days agoA team of researchers analyzing previously unpublished images of Mars's moon Phobos have found hints that the unusual moon is not what we once thought. Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos are a little ...