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Another Lucy Bonus: Asteroid’s Surprise Moon Is Actually Two Rocks Stuck Together

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The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but two tiny asteroids orbiting around Dinkinesh.

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Source: gizmodo.com