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NASA's Lucy Discovers Complex History of Asteroid Dinkinesh and Its Binary Moon Selam

New findings reveal how Dinkinesh's rapid rotation and structural failure led to the formation of its unique contact-binary moon.

NASA's Lucy Mission Discovers Asteroid Dinkinesh Is a Binary Pair with Tiny Moonlet