Dinkinesh – Amharic for ‘you are marvelous’ – lies beyond orbit of Mars and has its own dinky sidekick barely 220 metres across
You could call it a “mini moon”.
In one of the smallest, but still exciting, discoveries by Nasa in recent years a spacecraft visiting a minor asteroid way out in the solar system has discovered that the chunk of space rock has its own tiny sidekick.
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