2023-09-16 20:34:47
Saturday / 1 / Rabi’ Al-Awwal / 1445 AH – 23:33 – Saturday, September 16, 2023 23:33 NASA’s “Lucy” spacecraft provided the first glimpse of the “Dinkenish” asteroid, and within two months, “Lucy” will approach Earth, It is testing its systems before flying close to it once more on November 1, 2023. The asteroid appears as a small dot moving once morest the background of stars, and it is the first view from NASA’s spacecraft of the main “Dinkenish” asteroid belt, and it is the first of 10 asteroids that the spacecraft will visit. On its 12-year exploratory journey, “Lucy” took the two pictures on September 2 and 5, while it was 23 million kilometers from the asteroid.
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