Sonda Lucy a mai aruncat o privire peste umăr, după ce a trecut de Dinkinesh: imaginea surprinsă de sondă, de la 1630 km (1 noiembrie, ora 17:00 UTC, la 6 minute după survol), ne dezvăluie că Dinkinesh nu are un simplu satelit, ci satelitul respectiv ar fi un obiect binar!
Claudiu Tănăselia
It turns out there is more to the “marvelous” asteroid Dinkinesh and its newly discovered satellite than first meets the eye. As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft continued to return data of its first asteroid encounter on Nov. 1, 2023, the team was surprised to discover that Dinkinesh’s unanticipated satellite is, itself, a contact binary – that is, it is made of two smaller objects touching each other.
