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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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