The most detailed telescope photographs yet of the asteroid Kleopatra — named after the ancient Egyptian queen — clearly show its weird “dog-bone” shape, and astronomers say their studies of it could ...
Astronomers have gotten their closest look yet at an unusually shaped asteroid orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. The strange asteroid, named ...
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. In the February ...
An artist’s impression of the ‘dog-bone asteroid’ over Italy (Credits: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Marchis et al.) A bizarre asteroid that looks like a giant dog bone has been captured by astronomers. The space ...
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