Talk:152830 Dinkinesh

request from NASA to add an external link

NASA has created a web-based real-time 3D visualization tool(called NASA's Eyes https://eyes.nasa.gov/) that allows users to follow along with over 150 spacecraft. I would like to request a link be added for visitors to follow along as Lucy flys by Dinkinesh and the other flybys. https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_lucy/events/lucy_dinkinesh_flyby?time=2023-11-01T16:54:45.000+00:00

the above link is just ther flyby of Dinkinesh, but you can view all events in the "next event' link in the left panel. Each event has a unique URL.

Thank you for consideration ------------------------------------

Jon Nelson

Group Supervisor, Visualization Technology Applications and Development

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

818-354-0722 | c: 818-661-7003

https://eyes.nasa.gov 128.149.43.234 (talk) 21:41, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Added. I hope this URL to the NASA's Eyes simulation is permanent though, since the people who run the NASA website tend to move or abandon URLs whenever major website updates take place, which causes link rot to the inconvenience of Wikipedia. Nrco0e (talk) 05:39, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Wrong info in the header, supported by NASA website

The following statement: "Dinkinesh is the smallest main-belt asteroid explored by spacecraft yet." is unfortunately wrong. With an estimated diameter of 790 meters, Dikinesh is much larger than Itokawa, that was explored and even sampled years ago. The mistake comes directly from the NASA web article given as citation for the information. Since the Template:Failed verification is used for the other way round (the wiki article is wrong despite the citation) I don't know how to modify the article itself, because the source given is still fundamental for everything else. Any suggestions? Emc2 Deepwatcher (talk) 23:52, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@Emc2 Deepwatcher: Itokawa is a near-Earth asteroid, not a main-belt asteroid. So the statement that Dinkinesh is the smallest explored main-belt asteroid still stands (although does its satellite count?). Nrco0e (talk) 03:23, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

I added a sentence to the lede clarifying this. Double sharp (talk) 06:13, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Why single out Itokawa in the article specifically? Plus, do we consider Dimorphos to be the smallest asteroid (non main-belt) imaged? Nrco0e (talk) 06:51, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@Nrco0e: Mostly only because it was the one asked about. Now that you mention it, I do think Dimorphos should count, so I changed it again to There are some smaller near-Earth asteroids that have also been explored. Double sharp (talk) 07:04, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@Nrco0e: My bad, I was considering the NEOs as a subclass of main belt asteroids, which of course they aren't, thank you for the reply. The clarification in the lead is perfect and solves for the problem that caused me confusion! I mentioned Itokawa in my original question only because it was the smallest considering just the "main" asteroids of the various binary pairs explored thus far, I didn't mention Dimorphos for that reason. Emc2 Deepwatcher (talk) 12:27, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism

A photograph of a human penis has been put in place of an image of Dinkinesh, taken from 'Lucy.' Please remove this vandalism. 2601:403:C005:6E50:7958:5A70:C825:7B25 (talk) 23:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! 2601:403:C005:6E50:F079:BBAB:14E8:5E2D (talk) 19:33, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

contact binary

During the flyby, the Lucy spacecraft discovered that Dinkinesh has a contact-binary natural satellite, named Selam

Does this mean that Selam itself is a contact binary, or is it an error? Dinkinesh + Selam clearly ain't. —Tamfang (talk) 06:01, 24 March 2024 (UTC)