Discovery of Companions to Asteroids 762 Pulcova
and 90 Antiope
for Thursday, October 26, 2000
to be presented at the Pasadena DPS meeting press
conference, Oct 26, 10:30am-12:00noon PDT
Any material, text, figures, or movies are embargoed
until the end of the press conference, 3:00 PM EDT Oct 26.
Materials may be downloaded before that time, but may
not be distributed or released.
Figures
Fig 1: Raw Keck image of 90 Antiope with satellite
Fig 2: 216 Kleopatra as a single body
Fig 3: 762 Pulcova with satellite
Fig 4 (above): 90 Antiope with satellite
Fig 5 (right): Comparison of 216 Kleopatra and 90 Antiope
Fig 6: 9 images of 90 Antiope through rotation
Important Notes About Movies
Please note: That movie 1, although interesting,
IS NOT the newly discovered double. It is showing
the performance of our technique on a known asteroid,
that looks like it is close to being a double, but
actually is connected.
Movie 1. This is a movie of the rotation
of asteroid 216 Kleopatra in Nov 1999, when radar data were
also beign acquired, that showed the weird 'dog-bone'
shape of this asteroid. These data are from CFHT.
The asteroid rotates once every about 5 hours.
Movie 2. Newly discovered main-belt double asteroid
90 Antiope as it rotates completely every 16.5 hours.
Abstract of Meeting Science Presentation
as PDF as Postscript
Contacts
Press Page for Discovery of Petit-Prince,
45 Eugenia's Moon, October, 1999