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Re: Astronomers Report On Strange Double Asteroid

Well, personally, i won't believe the story until the "Posse" has a chance
to review the photographs...... :)


Joel



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From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:56 AM
Subject: Astronomers Report On Strange Double Asteroid


>
>Astronomers Report On Strange Double Asteroid
>By Robin Lloyd
>space.com
>
>Nov 18 1999 15:48:02 ET
>
>A team of European astronomers claims to have taken an unusual direct
>photograph of an object that may be a member of a class of strange space
>objects -- asteroid pairs that closely orbit one another.
>
>Asteroid (216) Kleopatra, first discovered in 1880, previously was thought
>to be a solo dumbbell-shaped object, but it now appears in infrared images
>taken using the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope at La
>Silla Observatory in Chile to be a pair of bright objects closely circling
>one another, separated by a thin space of unknown size.
>
>Franck Marchis, Daniel Hestroffer and their colleagues used adapted optics
>on the telescope on Oct. 25 to look directly at Kleopatra, a Main Belt body
>with an elongated orbit that passes between Mars and Jupiter. They say the
>session showed that Kleopatra is comprised of two similarly sized lobes,
>neither of which is small enough to be called a moon.
>
>Full story here:
>
>http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/double_asteroid_991118.html
>
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