Nov 2, 2023 · On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt ...

Nov 9, 2023 · On Nov. 1, 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past Dinkinesh, a small asteroid in the main belt, and discovered a binary pair of moonlets in orbit around…

Sep 11, 2023 · NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured its first images with a view of the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, the first of 10 asteroids that the spacecraft will visit ...

Nov 5, 2023 · Asteroid Basics · Name: (152830) Dinkinesh and satellite · Location: Inner-Main Belt · Size: Primary est 790m, Secondary est 220m · Type: S-type.

Nov 3, 2023 · November 3, 2023 — New images captured by NASA's Lucy spacecraft confirmed that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is a binary, two asteroids that orbit ...

Nov 30, 2023 · Dinkinesh, the name borrowed from an Ethiopian word for the Lucy fossil, was the first flyby target of NASA's Lucy mission, which approached 425 km (264 mi) ...

Nov 3, 2023 · The flyby, which saw Lucy pass within just 300 miles (480 km) of Dinkinesh, revealed not one, but two asteroids: the larger Dinkinesh and a smaller, 0.15-mile- ...

Nov 2, 2023 · The asteroid Dinkinesh and its unexpected small satellite, as captured by the Lucy Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (L'LORRI) on Nov. 1, from a range of ...

Nov 2, 2023 · It tested Lucy's terminal tracking system, which allows the probe to autonomously track an asteroid during a high-speed flyby. (Lucy zoomed past Dinkinesh ...