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The European space telescope Gaia has found hundreds of new possible asteroid moons, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Thursday. ESA scientists believe they may have discovered as many as 352 new double asteroids with the help of the space telescope. “Binary asteroids are difficult to find as they are mostly so small and far away from us,” ESA quotes the author of the study, Luana Liberato from the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur. “Despite us expecting just under one-sixth of asteroids to have a companion, so far we have only found 500 of the 1 billion known asteroids to be in binary…

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