* **NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully flown by the asteroid Dinkinesh**
* Dinkinesh is part of a binary system with a smaller ‘moon’ orbiting it
* Despite a solar array deployment issue, Lucy captured images of the second asteroid, about 220 meters across
* Dinkinesh is the smallest main belt asteroid ever observed up close
* The rest of the data will be sent back to Earth for further analysis
* Lucy’s next target is asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, followed by the Jupiter Trojan asteroids in 2027.
You can get the full bried [here](https://www.brief.news/stories/da179c4f-c173-41db-b4d8-c1b1007c2cb0?categories=Space&date=2023-11-03&utm_source=daily-brief&utm_medium=email&source=%2Femail)
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