Asteroid Pairs Formed by Rotational Fission
A population of small main-belt asteroid pairs (MBAs) residing on very similar heliocentric orbits have been found and studied recently (Vokrouhlicky and Nesvorny, Astron. J. 136: 280 2008 and Astron. J. 137: 111 2009, Pravec and Vokrouhlicky, Icarus 204: 580 2009). These asteroid pairs show some common properties: they are ubiquitous with pairs
Scheeres, Daniel J. et al.
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