An Asteroid with a Moon
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 7 November 2023
From Astronomy Picture of the Day for 4/11/23. This is an asteroid known as 152830 Dinkinesh. It’s only 800 or so metres wide. It was flown past by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on 1/11/23 and the long range camera revealed that the asteroid has a moon. The moon is about a quarter the size of Dinkinesh.
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