has made the first sighting of a quadruple asteroid system—an asteroid with three moons orbiting around it. In their paper published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics and it is smaller than the other two moons with a diameter of just 1.6 kilometers. Its orbit is more circular and even closer to Elektra than the second moon. Notably which surprised the team as none had ever been seen before. The first moon has been named S/2003 1 and it has been measured as having a diameter of 6 kilometers—it orbits Elektra at an average distance of approximately 1 describe how they spotted a third moon around asteroid Elektra and some of its characteristics. The asteroid Elektra was first seen back in 1873 they also ran the data through an algorithm that has been designed to remove light from the halo surrounding objects such as Elektra. The resulting data showed that there was a third moon orbiting the asteroid 300 kilometers. The second moon First observation of a quadruple asteroid earning the system a quadruple designation—the first ever observed. The researchers found the third moon after studying archival data obtained from a prior research effort involving the Very Large Telescope in Chile. They analyzed the data
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