Long-distance relationships are tough enough when partners
are a continent apart. Consider the plight of two solar system bodies separated
by a distance more than 20 times as great.
Astronomers have found such a partnership: two equal-mass
members of the Kuiper belt, the reservoir of frozen objects beyond Neptune, that are gravitationally bound to each other but
separated by more than 100,000 kilometers.
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