NASA's Lucy probe scores a threefer as it flies by first target in 12-year mission

NASA's Lucy probe scores a threefer as it flies by first target in 12-year mission

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Dinkinesh, the first asteroid encountered by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is being orbited by a smaller binary pair, and is the first object of its kind to be found by astronomers. Initial images of Dinkinesh beamed back by the probe revealed a smaller space rock peeking out from behind it. Scientists…

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