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Amateurs and professionals combine observations to produce detailed picture of double asteroid
03-29-2007 · EurekAlert!The main belt asteroid Antiope is among the few binary asteroids discovered in recent years, yet even through the Earth's largest telescopes it appears as merely two bright blobs orbiting one another. By harnessing the power of larger telescopes and the eagerness of amateurs with small instruments, UC Berkeley and Paris Observatory astronomers have constructed a detailed picture of the asteroid doublet: Two rubble piles twirling in a perpetual pas de deux.
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