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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 ...

Meet "Dinkinesh," the tiny main belt asteroid that will be visited by the Lucy spacecraft in November this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The NASA mission's first close flyby came with an exciting surprise: Dinkinesh is a binary asteroid featuring not one but two space rocks. Reading time 2 minutes As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft zoomed past ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 dinky sidekick — a mini-moon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asteroid Dinkinesh NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO The word "Dinkinesh" is Amharic for ...

New images captured by NASA's Lucy spacecraft confirmed that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is a binary, two asteroids that orbit a common center of mass. The SwRI-led mission will now fly by ...

Lucy, NASA’s 12-year mission to study the “fossils of the universe,” has successfully completed its first flyby of the asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh. NASA confirmed the passage of the milestone Wednesday, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A size comparison of Dinkinesh (shown in blue) and other main asteroid belt objects Bennu and (2867) Steins. The first asteroid to ...