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A Candidate Asteroid Pair: 2018 NC15 and 2026 LD1

11 min

A search of every known near-Earth asteroid orbit turns up two bodies travelling within about one Earth-Moon distance of each other. I could not find the pair in the literature. Here is the evidence and what is still unverified.

#Astronomy#Near-Earth Asteroids#Asteroid Pairs#Open Data#NASA