Novel calculations peg age of 'baby' asteroid
April 30, 2024
April 30, 2024
ITHACA, New York, April 30 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
An asteroid dubbed "Lucy's baby" after a NASA spacecraft discovered it orbiting another asteroid last November is in fact a solar system toddler - just 2-3 million years old, a Cornell-led research team estimates using novel statistical calculations.
The team derived the age of Selam, a "moonlet" circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt between Mar . . .
An asteroid dubbed "Lucy's baby" after a NASA spacecraft discovered it orbiting another asteroid last November is in fact a solar system toddler - just 2-3 million years old, a Cornell-led research team estimates using novel statistical calculations.
The team derived the age of Selam, a "moonlet" circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt between Mar . . .