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NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex


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

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