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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 ...

Asteroid number one's name is Dinkinesh, or as scientists adorably call it, "Dinky." Soon after, however, on Nov. 2, the Lucy team announced a surprise. Dinkinesh isn't just one, but rather a ...

A solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it became a moon that now orbits the space rock, new research found.

What it found was surprising: Dinkinesh is not alone! L'LORRI discovered a natural satellite orbiting Dinky every 52.7 hours at a distance of 1.9 miles (3.1 kilometers). For an asteroid to have a ...

But they did not predict that the diminutive asteroid was harboring a moon — let alone two. Based on Lucy's images, its moons appear to be a combined 720 feet (220 m) around.

The asteroid—officially titled "Dinkinesh" but nicknamed "Dinky"—was found to have a tiny moon orbiting it when NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past it in November 2023.

It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a dinky sidekick — a mini moon. The discovery was made during Wednesday’s flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in ...