A newly discovered asteroid is a toddler–in space years. The moonlet circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh named Selam is about 2 to 3 million years old. Scientists arrived at this age estimate using ...
Selam may actually be younger than Lucy's namesake, the 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s.
NASA's DART mission hammered its target asteroid into a new shape. Here's how — NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down surface ages of 1st asteroid targets The next closest flyby of ...
Merrill, a dynamics expert who was part of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, was watching closely when the Lucy spacecraft flew by Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023, and unexpectedly ...
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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A 2,000-foot-long asteroid stormed past Earth this morning. The asteroid in question is ...
A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning and if you don't catch it now, you'll have to wait more than a year to see it again. But you are going to need a telescope to see the ...
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Selam is nicknamed “Lucy’s baby,” after NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered it orbiting another asteroid in November 2023. The Lucy mission is the first set to explore the Trojan asteroids.
Merrill, a dynamics expert who was part of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, was watching closely when the Lucy spacecraft flew by Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023, and ...
NASA's DART mission hammered its target asteroid into a new shape. Here's how — NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down surface ages of 1st asteroid targets The next closest flyby of 2024 ...