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From SPACE.com:
A team of astronomers led by F. Marchis, PI, at the SETI Institute and at UC-Berkeley, and P. Descamps from Paris Observatory announced recently the discovery of two moons around an intriguing asteroid. The main-belt asteroid 216 Kleopatra has two companions.
When Marchis observed this asteroid for the first time in October 1999 with the 3.6m telescope at ESO-La Silla in Chile, he did not know that he was starting a lengthy quest. The first data recorded with an adaptive optics system, which improves the angular resolution of the image on ground-based telescopes, reveal that the asteroid was made of two components.
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