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This processed image, based on observations taken in July 2017, shows the two moons of the asteroid Kleopatra and its two moons, AlexHelios and CleoSelene. The moons are difficult to see in the raw images -- which were taken with the SPHERE instrument on VLT -- owing to glare around the asteroid, inherent to this kind of adaptive-optics observations. Image credit: ESO / Vernazza / Marchis et al. / MISTRAL algorithm / ONERA / CNRS.

VLT Observes Asteroid Kleopatra and Its Moons

Sep 9, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have determined the 3D shape and the mass of the asteroid (216) Kleopatra and correct orbits of its...