[no-to-illegals]

My vote is part of but do not know for certain. There are many masses of objects which do have some gravitational forces acting upon each of those objects traveling close or rather closely together. My vote is part of but still not certain. Even today scientists have difficulty describing gravity and gravitation forces in relation to space and time. Einstein may have come the closest to understanding the relationship of gravity to time and space but is still an unknown (imho), and to tell you the truth ... I’m the dumbest rock in the box.

[djf]

That's what I was thinking, part of it... these things are known to break apart in orbit, but they still have basically the same trajectory, and even small gravitational forces between them can keep them together for who knows? hundreds of millions of miles, staying together for dozens of orbits, until a close encounter with a planet manages to separate them.

Anyways, it was pretty spectacular!

And it was a small!! space rock!

[BenLurkin]

It came from a different direction, IIRC