This image provides a size comparison of the asteroid Kleopatra with Chile. The top half of the image shows a computer model of Kleopatra, a “dog-bone” shaped asteroid which orbits the Sun in the ...

A team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to observe the asteroid and have published their findings in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The asteroid is ...

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 ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have made detailed observations of a most extraordinary asteroid and discovered that it is an impressive 167 ...

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It’s true: 124 million miles (200 kilometers) might be a long way for your dog to fetch this cosmic bone. But thanks in part to two powerful telescopes, astronomers were able to inspect the dog-bone ...

Telescope photos show new details of the dog-bone shaped asteroid Kleopatra. It was originally discovered in 1880 is more than 125 million miles from Earth and weighs ...

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Astronomers recently used the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope to take what is now considered as the best images of the dog-boned shaped asteroid named Kleopatra. Franck Marchis, a senior ...