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MLA Full: "The Moon That’s 2 Moons Stuck Together." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 2 October 2024, www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpVlhKN9kU.
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Chicago Full: SciShow, "The Moon That’s 2 Moons Stuck Together.", October 2, 2024, YouTube, 06:04,
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LFpVlhKN9kU.
In November 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh and made a startling discovery: not only does this small asteroid have an even smaller companion (named Selam), that companion is shaped like a two-tier snowman. It's the first example of a contact binary satellite in the solar system!



































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