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The flyby of Dinkinesh is in addition to another main-belt asteroid, 52246 Donaldjohanson, that it will fly by in 2025. Lucy will then fly by several Trojan asteroids at Jupiter’s distance from ...
Asteroid 2025 OL1, about the size of a small plane, will safely pass Earth on July 30, 2025, at a distance of 1.29 million ...
NASA is closely tracking a large, 110-foot asteroid named 2025 OL1, which is currently heading towards Earth at a speed of nearly 17,000 miles per hour.
An asteroid named 2025 OL1 is heading Earth’s way. Measuring around 110 feet across, it’s roughly the size of a large aircraft.
An asteroid named 2025 ME92 is set to fly past Earth on July 31. It will maintain a safe distance of 3.19 million kilometers. NASA and ISRO are monito ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has found a hidden asteroid "moon" swirling around the larger main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, affectionately known as Dinky. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
NASA Finds a Surprise Second Asteroid During a Flyby Mission While testing its tracking system, the agency’s Lucy spacecraft discovered that Dinkinesh is not one space rock, but two ...
Scientists from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have determined that while at closest approach, asteroid 2012 TC4 ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft just pulled off its second asteroid flyby and imaged a frankly tasty-looking rock: a peanut-shaped asteroid named Donaldjohanson. The oblong asteroid is a fragment of a ...
Dinkinesh, a small asteroid that NASA's Lucy mission visited last week, continues to surprise. Posted 11:30 a.m. Nov 8, 2023 - Updated 12:09 p.m. Nov 8, 2023 By Ashley Strickland , CNN ...
NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft has adjusted course on its way to explore distant space rocks. Lucy's current trajectory will see the probe visit the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh in November 2023.