Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL Last episode, we brought you some early science results from the Lucy mission, which is out exploring asteroids in the main belt on the way to hanging out amongst Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The biggest piece of news was the discovery that Lucy’s first target, a smallish asteroid called Dinkinesh, had a moon. Well, hold onto your hats, that’s not the only wild thing about this encounter. It turns out that Dinky’s moon, lovingly referred to as Dinkymoon, is actually a contact binary. Or, as many astronomers are calling it on social media, a...
Lucy finds a moonmoon
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