SpazeAsteroid, with a contact-binary moon
Dinkinesh
Just 790 metres wide. Lucy’s 2023 flyby found it has a moon, Selam, which is itself two lobes stuck together.
- Size
- 719 m
- Orbit
- 3.2 years
- Distance from Sun
- 1.9 to 2.4 AU
- Day
- 2.2 days
- Visited by
- Lucy, 2023
Can we live on Dinkinesh?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.00 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 0 kg there.
Ground: Silicate rubble.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by Lucy