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Asteroid ‘Dinkinesh’/Lucy spacecraft

November 7 , 2023 515 days 505 0
  • The Lucy spacecraft, launched in 2021 successfully completed a flyby of the small asteroid Dinkinesh.
  • It discovered it is not one single asteroid, but a system of two, with a small 220m-wide satellite spinning around it.
  • Dinkinesh is barely a half-mile (790 meters) across.
  • Its closely circling moon is a mere one-tenth-of-a-mile (220 metres) in size.
  • The mission's main targets are a group of eight asteroids known as the Trojans.
  • The spacecraft will reach the first of these so-called Trojan asteroids in 2027 and explore them for at least six years.
  • The original target list of seven asteroids now stands at 11.

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