ASTRONOMERS CATCH IMAGES OF GIANT METAL DOG BONE ASTEROID
(JPL Press Release)
Views of the radar model of asteroid 216 Kleopatra:
Movie of the radar model of asteroid 216 Kleopatra in mpeg or avi format.
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Radar images organized by
relative rotation phase.Time delay (range) increases toward the bottom and Doppler frequency increases toward the right, so the asteroid's rotation is counterclockwise.
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Shape reconstruction
results. Each quadrant shows Arecibo radar images from one date (top), corresponding images calculated from the shape model (middle), and corresponding plane-of-sky views of the model (bottom). Each scale bar is 100 km long.
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Views of the Kleopatra shape
model parallel to its principal axes of inertia.The scale bar is 100 km long.
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Gravitational slopes on
Kleopatra.Their shallowness suggests a surface covered by unconsolidated porous debris. [Graphics: Shigeru Suzuki and Eric DeJong, JPL Digital Image Animation Laboratory]
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