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Binary moon orbiting Dinkinesh named after ancient fossilised baby
short by Swati Dubey / on Friday, 1 December, 2023
A binary moon orbiting two asteroids, one being asteroid Dinkinesh, discovered by NASA's Lucy mission, has been named 'Selam', meaning peace in Ethiopia. Lucy mission, named after the 1974 Ethiopian hominid fossil Lucy, shares ties with Selam, a three-year-old girl's fossil found in 2000. Though often referred to as Lucy's baby, Selam predates Lucy by over 1,00,000 years.
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