Main Belt Asteroid 216 Kleopatra has two moons.

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<p><font size="4">Main Belt, Type M Asteroid 216 Kleopatra has two moons.</font></p><p> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/12/13/cc945ea1-02dd-4fc2-ad4f-7988aa2de007.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><strong></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</font></strong></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

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<p><strong><font size="2">Crop showing the 216 Kleopatra moons clearer.</font></strong> </p><p><strong><font size="2">Both are tiny. The smaller inner one is 3KM wide & the outer larger one 5 KM wide.</font></strong><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/8/4/a8e6e384-c3c4-4afa-84c2-f8d00e61f218.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Enlarged view of the Dog Bone shaped M Type Asteroid 216 Kleopatra. </strong></font></p><p><strong><font><font><font face="arial" size="2"><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Dimensions: 217 KM x 94 KM x 81 KM. </span></font></font></font></font></strong><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/7/12/c7f37c37-d490-4b83-bcd6-30b482a28e56.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br />&nbsp;</p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>216 Kleopatra is the third largest known (by volume) type M asteroid (Rosetta encounters the second largest 21 Lutetia in July 2010, lets hope that the NAC works this time) & 16 Psyche being the largest M Type known.<br /><br /> Whilst the density of 21 Lutetia is currently not known, it is interesting to see that both 16 Psyche & 216 Kleopatra have low densities despite their metallic makeup. Both almost certainly are rubble piles held together by gravity, with possible internal 'voids'.<br /><br /> The 216 Kleopatra moons will pin down 216 Kleopatra's density precisely & may even help explain why the large parent asteroid is such a strange shape.<br /><br /> Fascinating stuff.<br /></strong></font> <p><font size="2" color="#000000"><strong>Andrew Brown.&nbsp;</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>