Rare near-Earth binary asteroid features two massive space rocks

In December 2017, the Cadi Ayyad University Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey discovered a space object dubbed 2017 YES. Not much was known about the object at that time, but thanks to some of the world’s biggest radio telescopes, we now have an answer: it is a binary asteroid. According to NASA, which has published a GIF of the actual asteroids, …