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The Moons of Asteroid Kleopatra

February 24th, 2011

 
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An image of the 217 kilometer long asteroid Kleopatra, discovered in 1880, taken by the Keck II telescope with adaptive optics, before (left) and after processing. The asteroid, shaped like a dog bone, has two moons, the outer Alexhelios and the inner Cleoselene.The asteroid Kleopatra, like its namesake, the last pharaoh and queen of Egypt, gave birth to twins – two moons probably spawned by the asteroid sometime in the past 100 million years.


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