Some asteroids have moons. What can we learn about asteroids that do have moons

Question

Some asteroids have moons. What can we learn about asteroids that do have moons that we cannot learn about asteroids that are 'moonless'? Pick the one best answer.

We can learn the mass of the asteroid.

We can learn something about the surface of the asteroid from the shadow cast by the moon orbiting it.

We can learn the mass of the moon.

We do not have enough information to answer this question because we need to know if the moon is prograde or retrograde.

This is a trick question; we can learn the same stuff for both types of asteroids.

We can learn the mass of the asteroid.

Explanation / Answer

Some asteroids have moons. for those we can learn the mass of the astoroids. We cannot learn the mass of the asteroids that do not have moons.

So the best answer is that we can learn the mass of the asteroids

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