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What Are Lagrange Points, And Why Are They Important?Two of the Lagrange points are important spots to locate satellites, while two more host asteroids.

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What Are Lagrange Points, And Why Are They Important?Two of the Lagrange points are important spots to locate satellites, while two more host asteroids.
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What Are Lagrange Points, And Why Are They Important?

clock-iconAugust 22, 2025

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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Met Its Second Target, Asteroid Donaldjohanson – And It’s Defied Scientists' Expectationsthe asteorid is made of two large lobes with a smooth surface covered in small shallow craters

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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Met Its Second Target, Asteroid Donaldjohanson – And It’s Defied Scientists' Expectationsthe asteorid is made of two large lobes with a smooth surface covered in small shallow craters
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Met Its Second Target, Asteroid Donaldjohanson – And It’s Defied Scientists' Expectations

clock-iconApril 22, 2025
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Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck TogetherDinkinesh is visble on the left as a spinning top shaped asteroid. Salem is seen on the right as made by two brigght blocks next to each other.

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Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck TogetherDinkinesh is visble on the left as a spinning top shaped asteroid. Salem is seen on the right as made by two brigght blocks next to each other.
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Moon Around Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Actually Two Asteroids Stuck Together

clock-iconMay 29, 2024
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Surprise! Asteroid Dinkinesh’s Tiny Moon Was Hiding A Second Secret MoonThis image shows the asteroid Dinkinesh and its two satellites as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) as NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft departed the system

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Surprise! Asteroid Dinkinesh’s Tiny Moon Was Hiding A Second Secret MoonThis image shows the asteroid Dinkinesh and its two satellites as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) as NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft departed the system
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Surprise! Asteroid Dinkinesh’s Tiny Moon Was Hiding A Second Secret Moon

clock-iconNovember 8, 2023
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NASA’s Lucy Flew Past Its First Asteroid This Week – But Instead Found TwoTwo asteroids against black space. The larger is a diamond-shaped gray dusty rock lit from the right. The smaller, mostly spherical rock is visible behind the larger’s lower right edge.

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NASA’s Lucy Flew Past Its First Asteroid This Week – But Instead Found TwoTwo asteroids against black space. The larger is a diamond-shaped gray dusty rock lit from the right. The smaller, mostly spherical rock is visible behind the larger’s lower right edge.
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NASA’s Lucy Flew Past Its First Asteroid This Week – But Instead Found Two

clock-iconNovember 3, 2023
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NASA's Trojan-Bound Lucy Successfully Swings Past First “Dinky” AsteroidLucy's path past Dinkinesh on November 1, a much quicker passage than those planned for its main Trojan plans.

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NASA's Trojan-Bound Lucy Successfully Swings Past First “Dinky” AsteroidLucy's path past Dinkinesh on November 1, a much quicker passage than those planned for its main Trojan plans.
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NASA's Trojan-Bound Lucy Successfully Swings Past First “Dinky” Asteroid

clock-iconNovember 2, 2023
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