Lucy Mission’s Initial Asteroid Encounter Has Surprise For NASA
The asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
Follow-up imagery from the NASA Lucy mission’s recent encounter with the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a surprise. Dinkinesh not only has a moonlet, but the moonlet comprises two separate lobes—one behind the other and touching one another, a phenomenon designated as a “contact binary.”...
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