Keywords :
minor planets - asteroids general - methods: statistical
Abstract:Small binary asteroid systems and pairs are thought to form through fission induced by spin up via the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect. This process is expected to depend on their structural strength, hence composition. We aim to determine how taxonomic classes, used as a proxy for composition, distribute amongst binary asteroids and asteroid pairs compared to the general population. We compare the distribution of taxonomic classes of binary systems and pairs with that of a reference sample of asteroids. We build this
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