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Asteroid ‘Dinky’, visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, has given birth to its own moon

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three grey space rocks in the blackness of space. the largest is alone on the left; the smaller two are on the right, touching one another

Scientists may have learned the history of the tiny contact-binary month orbiting asteroid 152830 Dinkineshwhich was the first space station for NASA Lucy spacecraft. That moon may have separated from its larger parent asteroid when Dinkinesh was sent spinning through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. After launching in 2021, the Lucy mission is on … Read more