We identify close pairs of galaxies from 278 deg ^ { 2 } of Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning imaging data .
The pairs are drawn from a sample of 330,041 galaxies with 18 < r ^ { * } < 20 .
We determine the angular correlation function of galaxy pairs , and find it to be stronger than the correlation function of single galaxies by a factor of 2.9 \pm 0.4 .
The two correlation functions have the same logarithmic slope of 0.77 .
We invert Limber ’ s equation to estimate the three-dimensional correlation functions ; we find clustering lengths of r _ { 0 } = 4.2 \pm 0.4 h ^ { -1 } Mpc for galaxies and 7.8 \pm 0.7 ~ { } h ^ { -1 } Mpc for galaxy pairs .
These results agree well with the global richness dependence of the correlation functions of galaxy systems .