Watch how NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh

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 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft flyby asteroid Dinkinesh at 10,000 mph

NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...
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NASA’s Lucy Mission: Updates and Mainbelt Encounters

NASA’s Lucy Mission launched in October of 2021 and will be the first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. By the end of its twelve-year mission, the spacecraft will have flown by a record-breaking number ...