Media Resources Download | Southwest Research Institute

Photograph of the "moonrise” of Dinkinesh’s satellite

Courtesy of NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab

Caption

New images captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft confirmed that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is a binary. This image shows the “moonrise” of Dinkinesh’s satellite. The SwRI-led mission will fly by 11 total asteroids over its 12-year mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.