binary system
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The two asteroids orbit a shared center of mass in what scientists call a binary system.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
This strange new world orbits around two stars at once, which dance around each other in what astronomers call a binary system.
From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025
It’s a binary system; a choice of extremes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024
Nemo’s powerhouse number “The Code” is about struggling to find their place and discovering it “somewhere between the zeroes and ones” of a binary system.
From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024
It is a binary system, the component bodies revolving around their common centre of gravity in a period of about two hundred years.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
