NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a shocking discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) vast and the binary asteroid is 0.15 miles (220 m) in measurement. The spacecraft closest strategy to the asteroid was about 270 miles (430 km) away and it was flying at 10,000 mph (4.5 km/s). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO/ASU | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Alien Invasion by JH Coleman / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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