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NASA spacecraft discovers tiny moon around asteroid during close flyby
- accrual 3y agoFascinating 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.
- dard 3y agoReally exciting to see the pictures. I helped write code for a paper predicting the size of Dinkinesh a few weeks before the flyby. It's so small we had to overlay multiple images in order to even see it in IR. We did not expect a binary! https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.13158.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.13158.pdf