The first asteroid target of NASA's Lucy mission hosts an unexpected "contact binary" satellite. Scientists have named it ...
NASA's Lucy mission will flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). The spacecraft will zip by the Main Belt asteroid at 10,000 mph (16,093 kmh). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced ...
The surprises keep coming for NASA’s Lucy mission, on its way to study the Trojan asteroids in the orbit of Jupiter. Lucy recently passed by a small asteroid called Dinkinesh and took this ...
November 3, 20233 min readNASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid nicknamed Dinky, only to discover an even smaller space rock orbiting itBy Meghan ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Asteroid Dinkinesh is the gift that keeps on giving, revealing not one but two satellites in its orbit. Image: NASA ...
(CNN) — When NASA’s Lucy mission flew by its first asteroid this week, its cameras captured a surprise. The Lucy spacecraft zoomed by the small asteroid Dinkinesh, located in our solar system ...
An artist's depiction of the Lucy spacecraft approaching Trojan asteroids. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Conceptual Image Lab / Adriana Gutierrez As NASA's Lucy probe sped by the ...
Lucy, Nasa's spacecraft, was on a mission to test scientific instruments and practice before visiting asteroids out near Jupiter. And while visiting asteroid Dinkinesh, it found there was a tiny ...
NASA’s asteroid-exploring spacecraft Lucy has made its first up-close observations – and discovered something completely unexpected. The asteroid Dinkinesh not only has a small satellite ...
The Lucy spacecraft just flew past the first of its asteroid targets, but the images returned had a surprise in store for the mission team. The target wasn't just one asteroid, but two! NASA's ...
NASA’s Lucy mission made a close flyby of the Dinkinesh asteroid on November 1, capturing data about the rocky object in the main asteroid belt. As it turns out, this small little guy was hiding ...
