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"We knew this was going to be the smallest main belt asteroid ever seen up close. The fact that it is two makes it even more exciting," says one NASA scientist.
The little asteroid visited by Nasa’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists.It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a sidekick — a mini moon.The discovery was made during Wednesday’s flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million mi...
The little asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists — a mini moon. The spacecraft made the discovery during Wednesday's close flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. The asteroid is only a half-mile across while its moon is a mere one-tenth-of-a-mile in size. NASA sent Lucy past Dinkinesh as a rehearsal for the bigger, more mysterious asteroids out near Jupiter. Launched two years ago, the spacecraft will reach the first of these these so-called Trojan asteroids in 2027. Altogether, Lucy will swoop past 11 aster...
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - The little asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. It turns out that the as
NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab This image shows the "moonrise" of a newly discovered second asteroid behind Dinginesh, captured by Lucy's