On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft zoomed past this space rock, marking the first of several asteroid encounters the probe is designed to make.
On Nov. 2, project scientists with the Lucy mission announced the first flyby came with a surprise : Dinkinesh, or 'Dinky,' appears to be not one asteroid, but two. Lucy was able to observe that Dinkinesh is a binary system, meaning there is a small natural satellite in orbit around it.
Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2023-11-07T20:15:47Z
Author: Brett Tingley
Twitter: @SPACEdotcom
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