Binary asteroid Archives

Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos May Have Been Reshaped Following Impact from NASA’s DART Mission

By News Staff February 29, 2024

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos. New numerical simulations indicate that the DART…

Lucy Shows Its Flyby Target Dinkinesh is Actually Binary Asteroid

By News Staff November 4, 2023

On November 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid — the small main-belt asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh — but its first two. The first images returned by…

DART Offers Insight into How Deflection Missions Can Protect Earth from Hazardous Asteroids

By News Staff March 2, 2023

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slammed into the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos — which orbits the larger, 780-m-wide asteroid Didymos — for the first…

Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos May Have Been Reshaped Following Impact from NASA’s DART Mission

Lucy Shows Its Flyby Target Dinkinesh is Actually Binary Asteroid

DART Offers Insight into How Deflection Missions Can Protect Earth from Hazardous Asteroids

Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas

Ancient Mars was Cool and Relatively Wet, New Study Suggests