Surprise! That object NASA’s Lucy mission uncovered is actually two things

NASA’s Lucy mission is seeing double. NASA announced Nov. 2 the spacecraft found that its first target, Dinkinesh, is orbited by a smaller satellite. If that wasn’t enough, recent data found the satellite is actually two objects in permanent contact with one another, known as a contact binary. “We’d been puzzling over odd variations inContinue reading “Surprise! That object NASA’s Lucy mission uncovered is actually two things”
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