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Here is my collage of contact binaries.

From top:
Near-Earth asteroids
- Toutatis, Itokawa
Main Belt asteroids
- Kleopatra, Donaldjohanson, Braille, Selam
Jovian trojan
- Hektor
Comets
- Halley, Borrelly, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Hartley2
Kuiper Belt objects
- Arrokoth, Kerberos

#ContactBinary
April 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
edwardsdna.bsky.social
New Images Reveal That This Asteroid Is Actually Two Conjoined Space Rocks. They Form a Peanut-Shaped Object Called a 'Contact Binary': A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange… @SmithsonianMag #Asteroid #Space #Hayabusa2 #ContactBinary #SpaceRocks
New Images Reveal That This Asteroid Is Actually Two Conjoined Space Rocks. They Form a Peanut-Shaped Object Called a 'Contact Binary'
A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe will also help defend the planet against potentially threatening space rocks
dlvr.it
July 9, 2026 at 8:11 AM