The team theorized that Dinky’s fast spinning motion caused the asteroid to shed and eject rocky debris into order. Some of this debris may have come together to form Selam.

Moon orbiting ‘dinky’ asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together. University of Maryland. Journal Nature Funder NASA Headquarters DOI 10.1038/s41586-024-07378-0. Keywords ...

When NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official target Dinkinesh in November 2023, researchers discovered that the asteroid—known as "Dinky"—was not alone in space. A satellite ...

NASA snapped a picture of an asteroid in an outer belt near Mars, which had a tiny moon orbiting the space rock called Dinkinesh. The photo was taken using the spacecraft Lucy.

Asteroid Dinkinesh, target No. 1 on Lucy's journey, turned out to be not one, but two (technically three) space rocks put together. Scientists finally gave its satellite a name.

Zooming past the asteroid at 10,000 mph (16,000 km/h) on Nov. 1, Lucy made its closest-ever observations of Dinkinesh ("Dinky"), an asteroid that Lucy has been tracking since the spacecraft's ...

NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid nicknamed Dinky, ... While flying past a small main-belt asteroid called Dinkinesh the spacecraft found an even smaller “moon” orbiting it.

Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew by an asteroid named Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary — two smaller space rocks that touch each other — orbiting the ...

NASA has discovered that an asteroid named Dinky is orbited by a tiny moon, forming a binary asteroid pair. In other words, it’s an even dinkier Dinky.

Scientists may have learned the history of the tiny contact-binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, which was the first cosmic stop for NASA's Lucy spacecraft. That moonlet may have spun off ...

The moon orbiting the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually two tiny moons stuck together. Collectively called 'Selam,' the two moonlets bring new insight into the complex processes behind ...