The little asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. The discovery was made during Wednesday's flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million miles away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. It's also the Amharic name for Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in the 1970s, for which the …
The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. The discovery was made during Wednesday’s flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million miles away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. It has ‘bones’ NASA sent Lucy past Dinkinesh as a rehearsal for the bigger, more mysterious asteroids out near Jupiter. “Dinkinesh really did live …
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. The discovery was made during Wednesday’s flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million miles away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. It’s also the Amharic name for Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in the …
NASA's Lucy spacecraft swooped past the pint-sized Dinkinesh asteroid among ten others on its long journey to Jupiter. Lucy's main targets are the so-called Trojans, swarms of unexplored asteroids out near Jupiter that are considered to be time capsules from the dawn of the solar system. Lucy will next swing past an asteroid named after one of the fossil Lucy's …
