NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...
Named for the fossilized human ancestor, Lucy will be the first mission to study Trojan asteroids, believed to 4 billion year left overs from the formation of the solar system. NASA is preparing to ...
NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...