When NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official target Dinkinesh in November 2023, researchers discovered that the asteroid—known as "Dinky"—was not alone in space. A satellite ...

Moon orbiting ‘dinky’ asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together. University of Maryland. Journal Nature Funder NASA Headquarters DOI 10.1038/s41586-024-07378-0. Keywords ...

The odd moon orbiting a ‘Dinky’ asteroid is actually two moons fused together. Understanding how space objects behave 'when they hit each other' is crucial. By Laura Baisas.

NASA snapped a picture of an asteroid in an outer belt near Mars, which had a tiny moon orbiting the space rock called Dinkinesh. The photo was taken using the spacecraft Lucy.

NASA flyby of "Dinky" asteroid reveals hidden moon. News. By Brandon Specktor published 3 November 2023 ... (790 meters) rock and a 0.15 mile wide (220 m) "moon" orbiting closely around it. ...

A solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it became a moon that now orbits the space rock, new research found.

Asteroid Dinkinesh, target No. 1 on Lucy's journey, turned out to be not one, but two (technically three) space rocks put together. Scientists finally gave its satellite a name.

The spacecraft found an asteroid, nicknamed Dinky, that actually has a smaller asteroid orbiting it, as originally reported by Scientific American. That’s right. It’s basically a moon with its ...

Moon orbiting ‘dinky’ asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together Collectively called ‘Selam,’ the two moonlets bring new insight into the complex processes behind planetary ...

Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew by an asteroid named Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary — two smaller space rocks that touch each other — orbiting the ...