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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away (www.space.com)

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[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These double-lobed asteroids always look so cool. Like, not that long ago if this image was in a science fiction movie I would have said ehhhh unlikely but here we are looking at them

[–] comador@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I feel the same way. Atari, Star Wars and Star Trek kind of ruined several generations with ideas of smooth shaped asteroids with rounded impact craters.