Dimorphos, Selam's Unique Asteroid Shapes
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•Weird, 'watermelon shape' asteroids like Dimorphos and Selam may finally have an explanation
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A new study explains the shapes of tiny asteroids Dimorphos and Selam have perplexed astronomers for years .
It also suggests these bizarrely shaped "moonlets" may be more common than previously thought.
Previous research suggests that binary asteroids form when a rubble-pile "parent" asteroid sheds some of its mass.
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