Satellite discovered by NASA's Lucy mission gets name

Satellite discovered by NASA's Lucy mission gets name

Space Daily

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San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 30, 2023

The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy mission has an official name. On Nov. 27, 2023, the International Astronomical Union approved the name "Selam", which means "peace" in the Ethiopian language Amharic, for Dinkinesh's moon. "Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the fossil nicknamed 'Lucy,'", says Raphael Marshall of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur

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