https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/newly-discovered-potentially-dangerous-asteroid-found-to-be-a-contact-binary/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:04:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/newly-discovered-potentially-dangerous-asteroid-found-to-be-a-contact-binary/#comment-1520691 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:04:36 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=108507#comment-1520691 Contact binaries seem to be a thing. I wonder if there are any resulting special case mechanisms that affect their orbit. I know there’s some exotic rotational coupling that’s been found with single bodies.

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