The NASA craft Lucy took pictures of Dinkinesh, an asteroid in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars and confirmed it is just one-half-mile wide. But Lucy also discovered it has a moon that is even smaller.
This photo provided by NASA shows a photo taken by the Lucy spacecraft during Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh, 300 million miles from Earth. It turns out Dinkinesh, which is only a half-mile across, has a dinky sidekick ... just one-tenth of a mile across. This little companion was a surprise to everyone. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA’s little spacecraft, Lucy, flew past a small asteroid this week and uncovered a big surprise.
Data and images beamed back to Earth confirmed that Dinkinesh is indeed dinky – only about half a mile across. Its moon is a mere one-tenth of a mile wide, “Dinkinesh really did live up to its name; this is marvelous,” Southwest Research Institute’s Hal Levison, the lead scientist, said in a statement.
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