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to be L6.5 and the distance was estimated to be 21 parsec. Shortly after the discovery, a paper by Ian Neill Reid et al. used Hubble WFPC2 to search binary L dwarfs and found that 2MASS J0902+3517 is extended in the F814W image, but not in the F606W image, showing that it has a red companion. The pair is separated by 70 milliarcseconds.

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