The diverse shapes of binary asteroid satellites born from sub-escape-velocity moonlet mergers

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Fig. 5

Same as Fig. 3 but after putting each body on a circular orbit with a semi-major axis of 1.1 r₀ and evolving the system for an additional 45 h (48 h in total), where r₀ is the distance from the primary barycentre at 3 h.

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