binary minor planetの例文

• "' 617 Patroclus "'( ) is a binary minor planet made up of two objects of similar size orbiting their barycenter.
• When binary minor planets are similar in size, they may be called " Charon are sometimes described as a binary system because the barycenter ( center of mass ) of the two objects is not inside either of them.
• Shortly after his death in 2009, the asteroid 52266 Van Flandern was named in his honor because of his prediction and analysis of lunar occultations at the U . S . Naval Observatory and publications of papers on the dynamics of binary minor planets.