Sub-catastrophic impacts into rotating porous 100 km asteroids can directly place deep subsurface debris onto stable high-pericenter orbits, forming satellites, when the impact leaves the primary elongated and fast-spinning.
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Satellite formation around the largest asteroids
Sub-catastrophic impacts into rotating porous 100 km asteroids can directly place deep subsurface debris onto stable high-pericenter orbits, forming satellites, when the impact leaves the primary elongated and fast-spinning.