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Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 20 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· 21 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 ...
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,...
How Much Water Would a Self-Sustaining Moonbase Need?
Universe Today· 8 hours 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 ...
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 ...
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· 1 day 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 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...
Bright comet headed toward Earth could be visible with the naked eye
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe incoming comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS might become as brilliant as Venus during its close approach to...