Name: Asteroid ‘Dinky,’ visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon
Uploaded: 2024-05-29T19:15:47-04:00
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Description: Scientists may have learned the history of the tiny contact-binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, which was the first cosmic stop for NASA’s Lucy spacecraft. That moonlet may have spun off its larger parent asteroid when Dinkinesh was sent twirling through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. Having launched in 2021, the Lucy mission is […]

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Asteroid ‘Dinky,’ visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon

Scientists may have learned the history of the tiny contact-binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, which was the first cosmic stop for NASA’s Lucy spacecraft. That moonlet may have spun off its larger parent asteroid when Dinkinesh was sent twirling through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. Having launched in 2021, the Lucy mission is […]

The Never Trump movement might be in its last throes, but a news publication it birthed is booming

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. The Never Trump movement might be on life support, but one of the outlets that it gave birth to is flourishing. The Bulwark, a clear-eyed conservative news publication that […]