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Cosmic Queries – Asteroid Hunters with Marina Brozovic

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Asteroids and Moons - Is There an Upper Limit?

On average, what percentage of asteroids have moons? Is there an upper limit to how many moons an asteroid can have? I didn't even realize asteroids and have them. We do have a triple systems in both main belt and in years population. They're rare. And we found so far for only four in near populations. So it's small. It's maybe 1%. As he said, those are all lower bounds because, you know, we can.

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