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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/03/mini-moon-asteroid-discovered-dinkinesh-nasa
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/03/mini-moon-asteroid-discovered-dinkinesh-nasa
laxpatrol
It’s like Le Petit Prince
HeadJamistan
Ok Internet, let's see "Dinkinesh-chan" Hurry up.
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
I was called dinkinesh by a dude with a lisp. I didn't know he had a thing for me.
ourari
Moony Me
TheFunionKnight
Turtles all the way down
jimmymcgoochie1
In before NASA decides to obliterate that one with a spacecraft too. Poor Didymoon :(
Munchman347
'Wow Man, Space Shrooms!'...
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AyatollahBahloni
Bully types always seem to attract a few hangers-on who are starving for any sort of approval or acceptance, even the toxic kind.
sevro77
weidermeijer
“It’s too small to be a space station.”
slightskew
How big tho, like 10 washing machines?
AtsaMattaForMe
SoberAndBored
Motherfucker beat me to it.
DarwinsWeasel
Moon moon!
golemwrath
I was looking for this comment!
Murrdogg
"dinky" ?
coreydeangibson6
scott manley fan?
RighteousRhythm
Those two are gonna hit us for talkin shit.
4vie
Man, gravity wells are weird.
Illinifan88
Technically they're orbiting each other
whoopsidaz
It’s been a long time since I took physics but they seem awfully small to have enough gravity for orbit.
AgentTasmania
Gravity never goes away no matter how small the mass. It just becomes proportionatly little. If there's nothing stronger sufficiently close, two grains of dust can orbit each other.
Chromentor
It's all fun and games until the inhabitants of Klendathu decide to weaponize it.
HomoSumHumaniAMeNihilAlienumPuto
....And little rocks have lesser rocks, and so ad infinitum.
CanadianFurr
It's rocks all the way down!
aSideOfNerd
micuu
Nuke them both
sexyandiknowit365
Squad goals
RIxspacexCK
Kinda reminds me of an inside-out hemorrhoid.
KnifeKnut
It's not a contact binary, so the hemorrhoid metaphor doesn't really work.
SithElephant
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criablelurst
Must be quite dense to hold onto that satellite surely? No I didn't read the article but I looked at the picture!
Lisossoma
You made a good point actually. they didn´t mention the density in the article but the fact that a small asteroid 220 meters apart can keep it attracted to a not so larger asteroid really suggest high density
mafiacarstarter
As long as it doesn't get perturbed, a golf ball would easily orbit a pumpkin. Absolute mass is irrelevant. Only the relative mass matters.
SirButcher
And relative speeds!
dustygamedev
Asteroids are actually more like wads of sand barely held together by their very low gravity.
nemocares
The only "limit" to the mass of an object relative to that of its satellite is that if the two get too close we stop seeing it as the satellite orbiting the larger body and start saying they orbit each other. Then keeping stuff in orbit is a matter of whether or not the product of both their masses is sufficient relative to the distance and velocity difference between them, not just one mass. (Remember, you exert a gravitational pull on the Earth equally large to the pull of the Earth on you.)
imgurmage
The recent touch-and-go astroid collection sample suggests that many are basically loose rubble piles, just barely held together by gravity. This one will likely become a contract binary at some point I'd guess.
EatPieLander
There are days I feel like that: a loose pile of rubble, just barely held together by gravity.
craziicrazii
How many cheeseburgers is that across?
5cX469Nit9JuI1MAZG5c3AdA
A standard cheeseburger is 4" across, so it's a little over 2,165 cheeseburgers.
justatinyduck
300k km at about on ls. Not do your math
justatinyduck
One ls*
TendingMoss
I'm only doenvoting you foe not spellchkiing yor text before sendind