A contact binary is a small Solar System body, such as a minor planet or comet, that is composed of two bodies that have gravitated toward each other until...

the stellar envelope or merges the binary in a timescale of months to years. Contact binary (small Solar System body), two asteroids gravitating toward...

a binary because they are different kinds of objects. Astronomy portal Binary asteroid Binary star Contact binary Contact binary (small Solar System body)...

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Selam, formal designation Dinkinesh I, is a 220 m (720 ft) contact binary and natural satellite of the main belt asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh. It was discovered...

in the Trojan camp). Hektor is one of the most elongated bodies of its size in the Solar System, being approximately 403 km in its longest dimension, but...

each other. While contact binary asteroids are common in the Solar System, Selam is the first known example of a contact binary satellite of an asteroid...

Comet Tuttle in January 2008 by the Arecibo Observatory show it to be a contact binary. The comet nucleus is estimated at 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in diameter, using...

many of the larger small Solar System bodies (which includes the asteroids), all named natural satellites, and a number of smaller objects of historical...

the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons conducted a flyby on 1 January 2019. Arrokoth is a contact binary 36 km...

Pan (prov. designation: 1987 SY) is a highly eccentric asteroid and contact binary, classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid and near-Earth object...

Kleopatra is a contact binary – if it were spinning much faster, the two lobes would separate from each other, making a true binary system. List of exceptional...

binary black hole system, hence a potential gravitational wave source through black hole–black hole merger. Contact binary (small Solar System body)...

Since then radar observations of other asteroids have found other contact binaries. Castalia is a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) because its minimum...

11066 Sigurd (provisional designation 1992 CC1) is a stony contact binary asteroid classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group of asteroids, approximately...

object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. This contact binary was discovered on 23 February 2006, by astronomers of the LINEAR program...

object of the Apollo group, approximately 1 kilometer in diameter. The contact binary was discovered on 24 April 1977, by American astronomer Charles Kowal...

near-Earth objects since 1908 (A) v t e 2014 JO25 is a peanut-shaped contact binary asteroid. It is an assumed to be a stony S-type asteroid. The overall...

makes its closest approach to Earth, its solar elongation (angular separation from the Sun) would be 64°, too small to be observable from Earth. In the next...

A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night...

number of small Solar System bodies, such as asteroids, comets, centaurs, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust clouds. Some of these bodies are in the...

85, which indicates that it has an extremely elongated shape or is a contact binary. In the former case the density of 2003 SQ317 is estimated at 0.86 g/cm3...

will not again until at least 2307. Radar imaging suggests it may be a contact binary. 2014 HQ124 orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.6–1.1 AU once every 0...

of a gentle, low-velocity collision of two objects, and is called a contact binary. The "terraces", layers of the interior of the comet that have been...

Chile. A study of Manwë's light curve in 2019 suggests that it may be a contact binary object. Manwë was discovered on 25 August 2003 by M. W. Buie at Cerro...

Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space. The Solar System belts' size and placement...

radar, and shown to be a contact binary, about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) on its long axis. Contact binary (asteroid) "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1999...

(prov. designation: 1987 SB), is an eccentric asteroid and suspected contact-binary, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid...

148780 Altjira /ælˈtʃɪrə/ is a triple or contact-binary double classical Kuiper belt object (cubewano). The secondary is large compared to the primary...

protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed. This model, known as the nebular hypothesis, was first...