Two asteroids beyond Neptune have been found to orbit one another. This binary system in the Kuiper belt shows marked differences from binary objects elsewhere in the Solar System.
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Margot, JL. Worlds of mutual motion. Nature 416, 694–695 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416694a
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