Satellite System
On August 16, 2009, at 13:36 UT, the Keck Observatory's adaptive optics system revealed that the asteroid 93 Minerva possesses 2 small moons. The two moons are 4 and 3 km in size and the projected separation from Minerva corresponds to 630 km (8.8 x Rprimary) and 380 km (5.2 x Rprimary) respectively.
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