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Is this the widest binary of any sort we know in the Kuiper belt of just the widest among equal mass objects?

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Is this the widest binary of any sort we know in the Kuiper belt of just the widest among equal mass objects?

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This is the widest of all known bianries, in the Kuiper belt and in the asteroid belt. And when expressed in term of the Hill radius, Antipholus is amongst the widest, even compared to irregular satellites of giant planets.