Elizabeth Tasker on Nostr: HELL YEAH! Torifune is another Itokawa; a contact binary where two asteroids collided ...

HELL YEAH! Torifune is another Itokawa; a contact binary where two asteroids collided gently enough to merge. In the case of Itokawa, the two parts were likely fragments of the same parent asteroid that fragmented during a catastrophic collision, and then gentle bounced back together.