Editor’s note: This article was updated Nov. 3 to reflect the discovery that Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid pair. 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. Its first was Nov. 1, and it yielded something special. OnContinue reading “NASA’s Lucy mission discovers surprise asteroid on ‘Dinky’ fly by”
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