Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Shaping Sylvia

A team of both amateur and professional astronomers have determined that the 168-mile wide asteroid 87 Sylvia  is irregularly shaped.  They did so by observing Sylvia as it occulted a star.

They also found that Romulus, a 15-mile wide asteroid that orbits Sylvia, is dumbbell shaped.

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