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NASA's Lucy mission has left astronomers astounded with its recent observations of the first-ever contact binary orbiting asteroid named Dinkinesh.
The Lucy mission has shared additional images from its flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, revealing the surprising companion orbiting the space rock isn’t what it initially seemed.
Dinkinesh, a small asteroid that NASA's Lucy mission visited last week, continues to surprise.
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.