Scientists discover first three-lobed asteroid with unexpected moon in solar system

In the quiet discipline of long observation, astronomers at Arizona's Mount Graham observatory have encountered something the solar system had not yet revealed: an asteroid shaped into three distinct lobes, unlike any catalogued before, and accompanied by a small moon no one expected to find there. The discovery unsettles tidy assumptions about how these ancient bodies form and travel through space, suggesting that the processes of collision, merger, and gravitational entanglement can produce stranger architectures than science had imagined. It is a reminder that the solar system, mapped and s