NASA’s Lucy will fly by tiny asteroid nicknamed ‘Dinky’

Since its launch two years ago, NASA’s Lucy mission has been traveling the inner solar system on its way to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. In total, the spacecraft will fly by 10 small, rocky worlds — and its first flyby is coming up Nov. 1. On Wednesday, Lucy will zip past 152830 Dinkinesh, a tinyContinue reading “NASA’s Lucy will fly by tiny asteroid nicknamed ‘Dinky’”
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