They wander two by two across the cosmos
Photo courtesy of NASA

Binary asteroids are a pair of asteroids orbiting each other in a two-body system astronomers are currently developing theories on to explain their formation. Astronomers are presently studying binary asteroids in an effort to both confirm recent theories and develop new ones.

Astronomers recently took a closer look at the relative brightness of 35 binary asteroids, in order to determine the relative sizes, spin rates and shape o...

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