Double Asteroid Antiope
by European Southern Observatory/science Photo Library
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Double Asteroid Antiope
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European Southern Observatory/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Double asteroid Antiope. Illustration of the double asteroid 90 Antiope. These two asteroids, which orbit around each other, were discovered in 1866 but at the time were thought to be a single object. The binary nature of the asteroid was discovered in 2000. Both asteroids have a quasi-spherical shape and are of a similar size, around 85 kilometres across. They are among the 500 largest asteroids.
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