Asteroid ‘Dinky’ visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft gave birth to its own moon
Scientists may have learned the history of the little ones contact binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 DinkineshNASA’s first cosmic stop Lucy spacecraft. This moonlet may have formed from its larger parent asteroid When Dinkinesh was sent spinning through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. The Lucy mission, launched in 2021, is on track to explore… Read More »