20E-32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid with a Moon
Episode 2 min 1s

20E-32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid with a Moon

It appears that Hektor and its moon were created by a collision between two icy asteroids early in the 4.5 billion year history of our solar system when things were more chaotic. They happened to land in a gravitational dip which has allowed them to remain relatively undisturbed for billions of years.

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