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NASA spacecraft discovers tiny moon around asteroid during close flyby

15 pointsby thehoffover 1 year ago

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dardover 1 year ago
Really exciting to see the pictures. I helped write code for a paper predicting the size of Dinkinesh a few weeks before the flyby. It&#x27;s so small we had to overlay multiple images in order to even see it in IR. We did not expect a binary!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2309.13158.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2309.13158.pdf</a>
accrualover 1 year ago
Fascinating discovery. Space reporting like this never fails to light up my imagination. I wonder what it would be like to hang out on the surface of the parent asteroid and watch as the relatively small moon floats by overhead - so close that you could probably jump from one to the other.