2023-11-04 13:45:00
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA releases discovery data “Twin asteroids” which are considered an unexpected discovery. Underscoring the wonder of space that still has many hidden secrets, this image was taken on November 1, 2023, from NASA’s Lucy probe, which was orbiting close. Asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh and encountered something unexpected before. That’s this asteroid. It is not a single star as astronomers understand it. But they orbit in pairs. The main star is about 790 meters wide and the smaller star is about 220 meters across. This image was taken before the Lucy probe made its closest orbit. From a distance of approximately 430 km, the mission gained important information this time. It is a test step to lock the target into orbit to hover over the Dinkinesh asteroid in order to use orbital data for the main mission. is the orbit towards 8 asteroids in the future of the Lucy mission Because Dinkinesh is smaller than other asteroids, the Lucy mission is a project to explore 8 asteroids with the Lucy probe, divided into 2 in the main asteroid belt. It is between Mars and Jupiter and six other planets that orbit the Sun in the same orbit as Jupiter. It is a type of asteroid that astronomers call Jupiter trojan asteroids, which have two elliptical clusters in front and behind Jupiter at a distance of 60 degrees from the Sun. As of 2021, there are The discovery of more than 9,800 Trojan asteroids from Jupiter in this survey aims to study the birth of planets in the solar system because asteroids are rocky debris left over from the birth of planets when the Sun was first born. About 4.5 billion years ago Asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh was discovered on November 4, 1999 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey in Socorro. New Mexico state Observations of this discovery were published by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) on November 23, 1999. Reference: NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA Goddard.
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