NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids

By Leah Crane

Artist’s content of the New Horizons spacecraft and a Kuiper loop object

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The New Horizons spacecraft has spotted 2 pairs of tiny asteroids called “tight twins” connected the outer edges of our cosmic neighbourhood. These objects whitethorn assistance america recognize however planets were formed successful the aboriginal star system.

The members of these pairs of asteroids are truthful adjacent unneurotic that we could ne'er archer from immoderate Earth-based scope that they dwell of 2 abstracted objects.

“To marque these observations, we had to property the highest-resolution camera connected the spacecraft… and …

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