Assertion: asteroid belt's body | /r/Synonym | asteroid
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text: These still-theoretical bodies were called "compound binary" asteroids – "binary" meaning two bodies, and "compound" indicating that they were touching each other, instead orbiting around each other.
text: With an uniform density like the Earth's crust, it is probably a fractured chip off a larger body, perhaps another asteroid.
text: William Herschel suggested that these bodies be called asteroids, which means ‘star-like’.