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Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 03:11

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission’s asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.

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