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The finding baffled scientists, who had never witnessed this kind of satellite, known as a contact binary, orbiting an asteroid.
"There's a lot more complexity in these small bodies than we originally thought," said University of Maryland astronomy professor and study coauthor Jessica Sunshine in a— in November 2023, it was the smallest body ever closely examined by humankind within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter., Dinky was believed to be a type of contact binary — a not-too-rare phenomenon in which two celestial bodies orbit each other in an extremely close cosmic dance.
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