NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flies by asteroid Dinkinesh, discovers close binary

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flies by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a suprising discovery, a close binary! Prelimanary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 miles (220 m) in size. Full Story: https://www.space.com/lucy-asteroid-flyby-dinkinesh-binary-system

The spacecraft closest approach 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 (https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)
Music: Alien Invasion by JH Coleman / courtesy of http://www.epidemicsound.com

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