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NASA s Lucy Spacecraft Discovers Mini Moon Orbiting Asteroid Dinkinesh

With its first flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, Lucy discovered it is not one single asteroid, but a system of two, with a small 220m-wide satellite spinning around it.

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In Photos: NASA Spacecraft Finds Surprise Second Asteroid During Flyby

Dinkinesh, the smallest main belt asteroid ever seen up close by NASA s Lucy spacecraft this week, has been revealed to be a binary, with a moonlet in orbit.

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NASA s Lucy spacecraft competes first asteroid flyby

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 2, 2023 - NASA s Lucy spacecraft completed its first flyby of an asteroid Wednesday and phoned home by transmitting data back to Earth.

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Surprise! Asteroid Dinky is actually a double space rock, NASA s Lucy probe reveals (photo)

NASA's Lucy spacecraft just flew by its first asteroid — and discovered that the space rock has a companion.

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First NASA images from Lucy s flyby reveal that Dinky is not alone

Scientists have discovered that the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair.

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