Asteroids Do Have Satellites

By W. Merline, S. Weidenschilling, D. Durda, Jean-Luc Margot, P. Pravec, A. Storrs. 2002

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Effects of thermal radiation on the dynamics of binary NEAs (2004, methodology): “Therefore the observed low eccentricity of many binary NEAs does not necessarily mean that the system underwent any tidal evolution, as previously suggested (Merline et al., 2002), because BYORP alone can achieve the same qualitative result.”
The significance of meteorite density and porosity (2008, background): “The best observations yield errors of only a few percent in mass (Merline et al., 2002).”
The formation of asteroid satellites in large impacts: Results from numerical simulations (2004, methodology): “(1989), and updated Merline et al. (2002a), indicates that there should be servable characteristic differences between satellite sys formed by the SMATS vs.”
The hazard of near-Earth asteroid impacts on earth (2004, background): “But as adaptive optics and other modern techniques (including analysis of ‘‘eclipsing binary’’ lightcurves) discover common asteroid duplicity also among mainbelt asteroids, Trojans, and Kuiper Belt objects [40], it is clear that small bodies must no longer be assumed to be simple objects.”
Density of asteroids (2012, background): “…the components of the system, their mutual orbit can be determined and the mass derived with Kepler’s third law (see, for instance, Petit et al., 1997; Merline et al., 1999, 2002; Margot et al., 2002, Marchis et al., 2005, 2008a,b, Brown et al., 2005, 2010; Carry et al., 2011; Fang et al., 2011).”