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Strange moon of asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought after NASA probe finds 'contact binary' ...
"It is puzzling, to say the least," the Southwest Research Institute's Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy, said in the statement. "I would have never expected a system that looks like this.
Lucy spotted the third rock in this asteroid system six minutes after snapping the images that initially revealed Dinkinesh wasn't alone. In that time, the probe had traveled 960 miles (1,545 km) from the point at which it discovered the first satellite.
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NASA's Lucy Mission Spotted Another Moonlet Orbiting Dinkinesh
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which performed a fly-by rehearsal last week in preparation for its rendezvous with Jupiter's Trojan moons in 2027, snapped a second image of a small rock in the asteroid belt named Dinkinish and made a surprising discovery.
As Lucy crept toward Dinkinesh, the science team expected to find a moonlet because the asteroid's brightness kept changing due to something small casting a shadow across it.
BBC News - On Camera, Gone Viral, Asteroid Capsule Landing
A capsule carrying samples from the asteroid Bennu arrives back on earth. It's caught on camera as it bursts into the earth's atmosphere and lands in the Utah desert.
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