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On November 1st, 2023, NASA's Lucy

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spacecraft flew by
the main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh.

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Now, the mission has released pictures
from Lucy's Long Range

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Reconnaissance Imager,
taken over a roughly three-hour period,

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providing the best views of the asteroid
to date.

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During the flyby, Lucy discovered
that Dinkinesh

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has a small moon,
which the mission named “Selam,”

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a greeting in the Amharic language
meaning “peace.”

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Dinkinesh is the smallest main-belt
asteroid ever encountered by a spacecraft,

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and may have ejected the material that now
forms Selam.

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Lucy will swing by Earth in December 2024
for its second gravity assist,

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boosting its orbit to reach Jupiter's
Trojan asteroids in August 2027.

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