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NASA's Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh's dynamic history By Reuters
Investing.com· 1 day agoA little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by NASA's Lucy spacecraft - has a...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoResearchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid...
Mystery of unique double moon shines light on planet formation
Newsweek· 7 hours 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.
How NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun
SPACE.com· 4 hours agoThe probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission to the asteroid Bennu and...
NASA’s DART mission punched the Didymos asteroid in 2022 — now it’s time to go back
The Verge· 10 hours agoThe European Space Agency (ESA) is running some of the final tests required to launch its Hera...
Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThree grey space rocks in the blackness of space. the largest is alone on the left; the smaller two...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 10 hours agoWhen the Arecibo Observatory dish in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost a powerful radio telescope and a unique radar instrument to map the...
Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together
IFLScience· 1 day 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 ...
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 1 day agoImages from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on...
Just-discovered ‘dinky’ asteroid moon is actually something far stranger
Cosmos· 1 day 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 ...