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Detailed explanation-1: -A team of researchers from Thailand and France have discovered the first known quadruple Asteroid system in our solar system. A third moon has been spotted orbiting the main-belt asteroid Elektra which was already known to have two moons in its orbit.

Detailed explanation-2: -A third moon (blue orbit) was discovered orbiting the asteroid, making it the first known quadruple asteroid system. Anthony Berdeu of the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, who led the research said as per Science Alert, “Elektra is the first quadruple system ever detected.

Detailed explanation-3: -A trio of researchers from the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Université de Lyon and Sorbonne Université, respectively, has made the first sighting of a quadruple asteroid system-an asteroid with three moons orbiting around it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Discovery of Asteroids In 1801, while making a star map, Giuseppe Piazzi accidentally discovered a small object 1000 kilometers (600 miles) in diameter between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Piazzi named the object Ceres. It was the first asteroid to be discovered. In 1802, two more were discovered.

Detailed explanation-5: -Using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid with the shortest orbital period of any known asteroid in the Solar System.