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To: BenLurkin

A mile-wide asteroid has enough gravity to capture a satellite?

I never would have guessed.


23 posted on 05/21/2019 5:46:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_asteroid


25 posted on 05/21/2019 5:54:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
A mile-wide asteroid has enough gravity to capture a satellite? I never would have guessed.

Common phenomenon. But no, they don't actually "capture" their satellites. Co-creation is more likely.

Regards,

37 posted on 05/21/2019 9:10:52 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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