Featured Image: The Last Asteroid Pair Discovered by Arecibo
The 1,000-foot-wide Arecibo Telescope discovered nearly 60 binary or triple asteroid systems. 2020 BX12 was the final binary asteroid discovered with Arecibo before the telescope collapsed in 2020…
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