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We have discovered a wide planetary-mass companion to the $\beta$ Pic movinggroup member 2MASSJ02495639-0557352 (M6 VL-G) using CFHT/WIRCam astrometry fromthe Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. In addition, Keck laser guide staradaptive optics aperture-masking interferometry shows that the host is itself atight binary. Altogether, 2MASSJ0249-0557ABc is a bound triple system with an$11.6^{+1.0}_{-1.3}$ $M_{\rm Jup}$ object separated by $1950\pm200$ AU (40")from a relatively close ($2.17\pm0.22$ AU, 0.04") pair of $48^{+12}_{-13}$$M_{\rm Jup}$ and $44^{+11}_{-14}$ $M_{\rm Jup}$ objects. 2MASSJ0249-0557AB isone of the few ultracool binaries to be discovered in a young moving group andthe first confirmed in the $\beta$ Pic moving group ($22\pm6$ Myr). The mass,absolute magnitudes, and spectral type of 2MASSJ0249-0557 c (L2 VL-G) areremarkably similar to those of the planet $\beta$ Pic b (L2,$13.0^{+0.4}_{-0.3}$ $M_{\rm Jup}$). We also find that the free-floating object2MASSJ2208+2921 (L3 VL-G) is another possible $\beta$ Pic moving group memberwith colors and absolute magnitudes similar to $\beta$ Pic b and2MASSJ0249-0557 c. $\beta$ Pic b is the first directly imaged planet to have a"twin," namely an object of comparable properties in the same stellarassociation. Such directly imaged objects provide a unique opportunity tomeasure atmospheric composition, variability, and rotation across differentpathways of assembling planetary-mass objects from the same natal material.

The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. III. 2MASS J0249-0557 c: A Wide Planetary-mass Companion to a Low-mass Binary in the beta Pic Moving Group