BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Kleopatra

ASTEROID · the dog bone
Kleopatra
AI illustration of the real object
SIZE about 270 km longSHAPE a dog's boneMOONS two

A metal rich asteroid shaped exactly like a cartoon dog bone: two thick lobes joined by a slimmer bar. It spins so fast that it sheds material from its tips, which probably created its two small moons, named after Cleopatra's children. Asteroids keep proving that nature builds shapes no one would dare invent.

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