The European Space Agency, ESA, has a funny mascot: a cartoon dinosaur. The little dino belongs to Hera, a spacecraft that studies asteroids. Dinosaurs died out long ago because a huge space rock hit Earth. ESA now invites people to choose a name for the dino. The contest closes on 23 October.
The winner will join a special event in Berlin on 25 November. There, ESA will show the first pictures from Hera's asteroid visit. Hera is flying to Dimorphos, a small asteroid that moves around a bigger one. In 2022, a NASA spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos and changed its path. Hera will study the crash area carefully to help protect Earth in the future.