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The term binary asteroid technically refers to a system in which two asteroids of roughly similar size orbit their common centre of gravity. An example is the Antiope system.

However, the term is often used informally to refer to all asteroids that have moons, regardless of their size.

For more detail, see the entry on asteroid moons.



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