This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft is dominated by a double crater which may have been formed by the simultaneous impact of a binary asteroid. Binary asteroids are asteroids that orbit their mutual center of mass.
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Title: Vesta Cratered Landscape: Double Crater and Craters with Bright Ejecta
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Date Created: 2011-11-23
Rights: JPL
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