Asteroid Kleopatra

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The asteroid 216 Kleopatra is a fascinating celestial body that has been extensively studied by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as indicated on their Small Body Database (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top). Additional information can be found on its Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/216_Kleopatra) and in a news release from NASA (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/news/kleopatra_pr_20000504.html). A study about the asteroid's moons, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley, can be found on their news center (https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/22/how-kleopatra-got-its-moons/). Models of its shape were created as part of NASA's Planetary Data System (http://sbn.psi.edu/pds/archive/shape.html).