(216) Kleopatra - MPCD model animated

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marin
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Release Date
2022-06-14
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CC BY 4.0
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Shape model of the large main-belt asteroid (216) Kleopatra and its dog-bone shape. It was generated using high-resolution images from the SPHERE instrument on the VLT (more details on this imaging survey are published in [this article](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...654A..56V/abstract). ![Image of Kleopatra taken with the VLT](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/216_Kleopatra_VLT_%282021%29%2C_deconvolved.pdf/page1-147px-216_Kleopatra_VLT_%282021%29%2C_deconvolved.pdf.jpg) Kleopatra is an M-type asteroid with a volume equivalent diameter of 118 km and a rotation period of ~5.39 h. Kleopatra has two moons and its shape consists in two lobes and a thick neck.