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Additional images from NASA's Lucy mission reveal that the "moon" orbiting asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a contact binary, made of two smaller moons touching.
Dinkinesh, a small asteroid that NASA's Lucy mission visited last week, continues to surprise.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh, only to discover it is actually one of two asteroids
The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but two tiny asteroids orbiting around Dinkinesh.
The NASA mission hit the jackpot with its first target, observing the first known contact binary asteroid in orbit.