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hirnbraten.bsky.social
Dinkinesh einfach heimlich ein Baby bekommen, so kann es gehen, man oh man. Glückwunsch an die Mutter
May 3, 2024 at 1:37 PM
marijkelouise.bsky.social
Lucy maakt de eerste beelden van asteroïde Dinkinesh

De kleine hoofdgordel asteroïde (152830) Dinkinesh werd recent aan de Lucy-missie toegevoegd en zal op 1 november 2023 als eerste worden bezocht.

(Huub Scheenen)

www.kuuke.nl/lucy-maakt-d...
September 13, 2023 at 4:41 PM
astrokiwi.bsky.social
Ok, let's try a mixed scenario: Dinkinesh forms, it has a bigger & single moon initially, and another asteroid wanders by and goes SMASH! into the moon. Does this split Dinkinesh I into a moon moon & lose bits?
Well...this was tried for Haumea's moons, and it's also hard. Doesn't generally match
November 7, 2023 at 8:52 PM
news-feed.bsky.social
@ABC: Dinkinesh, the little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week, had a big surprise for scientists — a mini moon. https://t.co/q19pjBmFMW
November 4, 2023 at 7:04 AM
dragonsofwales.bsky.social
Lucy/ Dinkʼinesh.
June 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
startracker.bsky.social
Vous vous rappelez Dinkinesh que la sonde Lucy a survolé la semaine dernière, et qui s'avérait en fait être 2 astéroïdes : un gros et sa lune ? Alors vous allez rire mais...
En fait, ils sont 3 ! 😅
La lune est en fait 2 astéroïdes qui se touchent, un binaire à contact 🤯
go.nasa.gov/3QwiebO
Cette image montre l’astéroïde Dinkinesh et son satellite vus par l’imageur de reconnaissance à longue portée Lucy (L’LORRI) alors que le vaisseau spatial Lucy de la NASA quittait le système. De ce point de vue, le satellite se révèle être un binaire de contact, c'est la première fois qu'un binaire de contact est vu en orbite autour d'un autre astéroïde.
November 7, 2023 at 9:26 PM
barrygoldman1.bsky.social
but WAIT! are they in contact or not? or... were the moonlets orbiting each other before they made contact while orbiting dinkinesh? is that situation unstable? is contacting a way to become more stable?

and should thes guys be called double-dinki-dinkinesh?
November 7, 2023 at 8:35 PM
sharponlooker.net
"Diamond" #asteroids rotated, for no special reason 😉

(sources in alt text)
Didymos & Dimorphos family photo rotated so that poles are on the sides. Fig. 8 mosaic from https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad16e6 Dinkinesh & Selam family photo rotated so that poles are on the sides. Fig. 1 from https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/2388.pdf Ryugu rotated so that poles are on the sides. Credits: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu and AIST Bennu rotated so that poles are on the sides. From https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-spacecraft-provides-insight-into-asteroid-bennus-future-orbit/
February 29, 2024 at 10:18 AM
sharponlooker.net
From whimsical to trascendental, minute-detailed to quick doodle, replica to imagined impractical PoV... pick your fav.

A sample of my #PlanetArtober casual art this year, the full works in this Mastodon thread:
mastodon.social/@sharponlook...
Title: "Sol 4536, WANDY!" Digital painting resembling a Perseverance SuperCam RMI photograph. A scarred Ingenuity is standing proud on its final resting place at the top of a sand ripple. Regolith has started to dig its legs in wind-sculpted mounds, the main body out in the air yet but with a growing dust cover. "It's sol 4536 of the mission and the rover is finally heading for its rendezvous with the Mars Sample Return probe in the Three Forks plateau. A last minute delay in the MSR launch resulted in a missed window, so the rover has now time to spare to visit new spots on its way back down the delta. A pass nearby Valinor Hills allows for a successful data download from the copter and a last look at its retirement spot, all the while gaining new understanding in dust movement on the surface of Mars" "Adrift on this Ocean" Two asteroid monochrome crescents in the darkness of space: Dinkinesh diamond-shaped up, with its illuminated hemisphere on top; Selam bi-lobed down, both lobes slightly illuminated. "Not My Best Side" Two astronauts taking photographs on a ridge overlooking the west side of Kodiak butte "Those Clouds Will Be The Least Of Our Worries" The Vera Rubin Observatory among sunset clouds, dwarfed by its surrounding mountains
October 25, 2024 at 12:57 PM
orlandob71.bsky.social
APOD - 2023 November 4
Dinkinesh Moonrise
apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropi...
November 4, 2023 at 7:31 PM
hbhammel.bsky.social
wait - WHAT?!? Remember that newly discovered dinky little moon of the asteroid Dinkinesh? Well, surprise! It now turns out to be TWO little moonlets!!! Nature is just so delightfully weird. science.nasa.gov/missions/luc...
November 7, 2023 at 7:45 PM
ytsl.bsky.social
(Skipping 108 -- sorry!)

109. ETHIOPIA

The story of the discovery of AL 288-1 (AKA Lucy, and Dinkʼinesh (Amharic for "You are marvelous")) -- the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor (specifically, Australopithecus afarensis) found -- in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia.
Front cover of "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind" featuring parts of a fossilized skeletal hand. Paleoanthropologist (and discoverer of "Lucy", and principal author of the book if that name) Donald Johanson in a khaki shirt over a black polo shirt and khaki trousers.
March 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
hbhammel.bsky.social
NASA's Lucy Mission will soon flex its jets and science instruments for asteroid Dinkinesh . . . blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2023/11...
November 1, 2023 at 6:23 PM
howonearthradio.bsky.social
Today on How on Earth #KGNU, we talk with Dr. Simone Marchi about #NASA's #LucyMission to the Trojan asteroids. On its way, Lucy has flybys of two main-belt asteroids: Dinkinesh in November 2023 and next on April 20 it will fly by asteroid Donaldjohanson. howonearthradio.org/archives/10036
The Lucy Mission
Our guest today is Dr. Simone Marchi, Institute Scientist in the Solar System Science & Exploration Division at the Boulder office of Southwest Research Institute. Dr. Marchi is the Deputy Prin…
howonearthradio.org
April 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
barrygoldman1.bsky.social
do these count as @moonmoons ?
trojans of moons?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesto...
presumably Selam was a binary moon of Dinkinesh at some point? so they were moonmoons of each other?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selam_(...
Telesto (moon) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
astronews.com
Die NASA-Sonde Lucy ist am Mittwoch an ihrem ersten Asteroiden vorübergeflogen und hat dabei gleich eine bemerkenswerte Entdeckung gemacht: (152830) Dinkinesh ist ein Doppelasteroid. mehr: www.astronews.com/news/artikel...
[Bild: NASA / Goddard / SwRI / Johns Hopkins APL / NOAO]
November 3, 2023 at 4:55 PM
sequentialkady.bsky.social
It has a Dinkinesh-lette!
November 2, 2023 at 7:13 PM
planet4589.bsky.social
2.2 AU from the Sun, the Lucy space probe flew 425 km from minor planet (152830) Dinkinesh at 1654 UTC Nov 1. Lucy now continues in solar orbit for another Earth gravity assist in Dec 2024 before heading back out to the Main Belt and beyond.
November 2, 2023 at 1:49 AM
kellylepo.bsky.social
New color image of the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon Selam from the Lucy mission flyby.

Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name of the fossil nicknamed "Lucy". Selam (ሰላም) or “peace” in Amharic, is an Ethiopian fossil of a 3-year-old girl of the same species as Lucy 🔭🧪
blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2023/11...

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Color image of a small brownish asteroid on the left and a larger brownish asteroid on the right. Their left sides are in shadow and their right sides are lit by the sun. The larger asteroid is roughly diamond-shaped and has a few small craters on its surface.
November 30, 2023 at 12:04 AM
spacefriday.de
Lucy flyby discovers that asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair. More revelations are about to come.
November 3, 2023 at 2:48 PM
sciences.skyfleet.blue
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
Images from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on Dinkinesh where a large piece — about a quarter of the
www.nasa.gov
May 29, 2024 at 3:20 PM
christyceeck.bsky.social
Dinkinesh, "you are marvellous" in Amharic.

We saw her at the National Museum in Addis Ababa. I remembered a surprising amount from the high school archeology elective that I loved and horrified my family members by semi-shouting things like, "Oh my gosh it's Homo Habiliis!!"

#GiftLink 🎁
Meet Lucy, the celebrity of fossils, who changed our view of evolution
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
wapo.st
November 23, 2024 at 1:09 AM
planet4589.bsky.social
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Dinkinesh is a binary!
November 2, 2023 at 7:46 PM
davidbflower.bsky.social
With a moon moon orbiting Dinkinesh I feel like a naughty three year old😉 🔭 🧪
November 7, 2023 at 8:28 PM
andreabettini.bsky.social
Alle 17.54 italiane la sonda Lucy della NASA passerà a soli 430 km dall'asteroide Dinkinesh. È un piccolo asteroide di quasi 1 km di diametro. Nei prossimi giorni grazie alle immagini inviate da Lucy lo vedremo per la prima volta da vicino
blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2023/11...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Hours Away from 1st Asteroid Encounter – Lucy Mission
blogs.nasa.gov
November 1, 2023 at 2:46 PM