• An asteroid pair, or (if more than two bodies) an asteroid cluster, are asteroids which at some point in the past had very small relative velocities, and...
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    3749 Balam (redirect from Balam (asteroid))
    is a stony Flora asteroid and rare trinary system orbiting in the inner regions of asteroid belt. It also forms a secured asteroid pair with sub-kilometer...
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    6070 Rheinland (category Nysa asteroids)
    Rheinland (prov. designation: 1991 XO1) is a paired Nysian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.4 kilometers (2.7 miles)...
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    are thought to be fragments of past asteroid collisions. An asteroid family is a more specific term than asteroid group whose members, while sharing some...
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    An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System. They are rocky...
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    5026 Martes (category Erigone asteroids)
    C-type asteroid by PanSTARRS' photometric survey. Martes forms an asteroid pair with 2005 WW113, and was part of the 35 sample asteroid pairs in Petr...
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  • The dark D-type asteroid belongs to the 20 largest Jupiter trojans and has a rotation period of 15.9 hours. It forms an asteroid pair with 3801 Thrasymedes...
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    or expand their orbits until they become gravitationally detached asteroid pairs.: 166–167 : 430  The origin of contact binaries from doubly-synchronous...
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    The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter...
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    (458271) 2010 UM26 and 2010 RN221 (category Asteroid groups and families)
    2010 RN221 are a pair of sub-kilometer-sized asteroids that have extremely similar orbits in the main asteroid belt. These two asteroids are thought to...
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