{"id":14618,"date":"2023-09-13T09:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:22:44","slug":"dinkinesh-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dinkinesh-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinkinesh asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dinkinesh asteroid:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was discovered in\u00a0<strong>1999 by the LINEAR survey.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dinkinesh is a slow rotator with moderately large light-curve amplitude.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is an<strong> S-type asteroid<\/strong> means it is composed\u00a0<strong>mainly of silicates and some metal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will be the first fly-by target of the Lucy mission on 2023 November 1, during its cruise to the Trojan clouds.<\/li>\n<li>The observations were made by Lucy\u2019s high-resolution camera, the Lucy\u00a0<strong>LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager<\/strong> ( L\u2019LORRI instrument ).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key Facts about Lucy Mission<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched\u00a0<strong>by NASA from<\/strong> the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>12-year mission<\/strong> which will take close observations\u00a0<strong>of nine of Jupiter\u2019s Trojans<\/strong> and two main belt asteroids along with that.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first spacecraft sent to study the\u00a0<strong>Trojan asteroids<\/strong>, which orbit the Sun in the same path that the planet Jupiter takes.<\/li>\n<li>It has recently captured the images of\u00a0<strong>Eurybates, Polymele,\u00a0 Leucus and\u00a0 Leucus asteroids.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is asteroid ?<\/h3>\n<p>An asteroid is a small, rocky object that orbits the Sun in our solar system. These celestial bodies vary in size from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers across. Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt, a region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, although some can be found throughout the solar system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/lucy-captures-first-image-of-dinkinesh-on-its-way-to-ancient-asteroids-2434644-2023-09-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Lucy captures first image of Dinkinesh on its way to ancient asteroids<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinkinesh asteroid  is an S-type asteroid meaning it is composed mainly of silicates and some metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}