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The discovery was made during Wednesday’s flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars.
Nasa's Lucy spacecraft, named after a Beatles song, got a surprise this week when it got two asteroids for the price of one.
Dinkinesh – Amharic for ‘you are marvelous’ – lies beyond orbit of Mars and has its own dinky sidekick barely 220 metres across
NASA's Lucy spacecraft made its first asteroid flyby. But when it returned the images it took, there was a surprise in store: a second, even smaller asteroid.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft just flew by its first asteroid — and discovered that the space rock has a companion.