🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <C18v5H.6oA@well.sf.ca.us>, metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:
>      And the only way that asteroids can get lots of satellites orbiting
> them with anything like the observed abundance is in the explosive breakup
> of a much larger parent body.  The prediction that asteroid satellites are
> numerous and commonplace originates from the exploded planet hypothesis.

A favorite Van Flandern hobbyhorse, I know.  Tom, it's probably too
early to ask this question, but I'll ask anyway:  How well could
Ostro's group detect or rule out satellites of Toutatis using their
radars?

Is this a good way to search for evidence of asteroidal satellites?

"Do you know the asteroids, Mr.Kemp?...    Bill Higgins
Hundreds of thousands of them.  All        
wandering around the Sun in strange        Fermilab
orbits.  Some never named, never
charted.  The orphans of the Solar         higgins@fnal.fnal.gov
System, Mr. Kemp."
                                           higgins@fnal.bitnet
"And you want to become a father."
  --*Moon Zero Two*                        SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS