NASA's Lucy Mission Just Made a Bizarre Discovery We Can't Explain

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the first images from the asteroid Dinkinesh and pictures that make no sense
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#nasa #lucy #Dinkinesh

0:00 Lucy mission updates
0:50 Lagrange points and trojans
1:20 What Lucy is all about
3:15 First picture are out!
3:30 What this asteroid, Dinkinesh is and what it means
4:30 Discovery that is super surprising - tiny moon
6:20 Why binary asteroids are super common
7:10 YORP effect and how asteroids fall apart
9:20 Other asteroids become binary for other reasons
10:20 SURPRISE! It was actually a peanut asteroid
11:10 How contact binaries form
12:25 Why this is going to be exciting
13:10 Future updates

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[garoldticker]

Honestly most news theese days is bleak and depressing but all your videos actually keeps my curiosity and child like wonder alive. Thanks Anton. Ya giving me a lil hope out here. 👊

[julescircuits]

I absolutely love the intro Anton! You too are wonderful! 💖

[sydhenderson]

You've got the camps reversed. Lucy visits the Greek camp first. Patroclus, despite being named after a Greek, is actually in the Trojan camp. Hector, who was a Trojan, is in the Greek Camp. This is because they were named before the segregation into two camps occurred. Either that, or they're spies.

[glassworktrophic]

Bizarre discoveries we can't explain are like... our favorite thing.

[imfloridano]

One thing I like about this channel is if he says scientists can't explain sumtin its not click bait and I watch attentively

[TTeamFan]

Pop Quiz trivia - "Lucy" the hominin was supposedly named for the Beatles' hit "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (according to Don Johannson's book, anyway), which makes the name of the NASA probe very appropriate!

[MountainSnowInc]

That’s one of the best intros you’ve ever done! Loved it! Great Segway!

[costrio]

It was reported that the hominid "Lucy" was originally named after a popular hit song by the Beatles called, "Lucy In The Sky, With Diamonds"
The rumors at the time was that the song was about the drug: L S D
John Lennon reportedly claimed that it was about a drawing that his son made about a classmate Lucy, in the sky, with diamonds.
Just filling in the background story, as best I recall. ;)

[RenatoPauk]

I always first give a like then watch the video, simply because Anton consistently delivers amazing content. Keep up the good work, by far my favorite youtube channel for a long time now

[arieverhoeff]

Go Lucy, please surprise us every now and then. This footage is great, and real sharp.
Thx for all your updates (and have a great lunch). Dinkinesh, Anton

[chinookvalley]

Whenever I see Anton's name pop up on other YT channels it is always conjoined with the word, "WONDERFUL". Thank you for making it a better world Anton! It's simply wonderful what you do!

[igortumbas]

Hey Anton! Enjoying your presentations enormously. They are brain food for me. Keep going you wonderful person! Lots of love.

[jasonpatterson]

I think that we're going to discover some weird stuff as we get a better look at these small objects. There are so many in such close proximity that they will wind up having some really interesting interactions and combine into more complicated systems than we initially expected. Heck, the "images" of the objects that Lucy will be visiting tells us a huge amount - we don't even have bad pictures of these things. They are literally a pixel or two wide at most in our best telescopes, so we have to fake it with artistic representations of them. It's a great time to be alive!

[jesse]

Thank you Anton!
Always an interesting scientific topic and video.
You are awesome!! 😁👍

[-jeff-]

TY Anton for the updates. Now I really love Lucy. ❤️

[RhumpleOriginal]

Remember, Anton, that you are a wonderful person to us 😁

[marcussmart]

Thank you for making these videos Anton 🤘

[jackvos]

4:20 minutes intro. Must be a new record for Anton.

[commanderbly]

This kind of peaceful and interesting news is really welcome all things considered

[ericsullivan]

Anton, I think the representation of asteroid groups should have a warning saying, "Asteroids in this clip definately appear closer than they actually are". Incredible information. Great work.