 | Asteroid Kleopatra A movie of an asteroid, made from 23 frames, which were taken over a thirty minute period. This was done by members of Monmouth School and Monmouth Astronomical Research Society (MARS) in the UK. They used the robotic 2m Faulkes Telescope North on the mountain Haleakala, on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Asteroid Kleopatra can be seen moving slowly against the background of stars. In fact it looks just like one of them and only its motion reveals that it must be much closer to us, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroid 216 Kleopatra was discovered in 1880 and is about 200km long and 85km wide. Radar reflections reveal that it is metallic and shaped rather like a dog bone although this cannot be discerned from these images. The Faulkes Telescope Project is the education arm of Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN) and enables schools to use research class telescopes for projects: www.faulkes-telecope.com |
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