Q. What name has been given to the moon of asteroid named Dinkinesh discovered recently by NASA's Lucy spacecraft?
Answer:
Selam
Notes: NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently discovered that an asteroid named Dinkinesh, which it flew past last month, has a tiny "contact binary" moon - two space rocks gently rested against each other. The International Astronomical Union approved the name "Selam" for this moon, meaning "peace" in Ethiopia's language.
The names Dinkinesh and Selam refer to two famous hominid fossils discovered in Ethiopia. Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the 3.18 million-year-old Lucy fossil that the Lucy mission is named after. Selam was a 3-year-old girl's fossil found in 2000 in Dikika, belonging to the same species as Lucy and dating over 100,000 years earlier than her.