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Monisha Ravisetti

Curious double moon discovered orbiting asteroid 'Dinky' now has a name

Two grey rocks in space.

Something serendipitous happened in early November. It had to do with NASA's Lucy spacecraft, a solar-winged probe currently on its way to investigate a trove of ancient asteroids locked in Jupiter's orbit around the sun. They're called the Trojans, and they're believed to be leftover blocks from the box that built our solar system. 

But we're not talking about the mighty Trojans right now. We're talking about a little space object named Selam. 

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