Time delay (range) increases toward the bottom and Doppler frequency increases toward the right, so the asteroid's rotation is counterclockwise.
ASTRONOMERS CATCH IMAGES OF GIANT METAL DOG BONE ASTEROID
(JPL Press Release)
Views of the radar model of asteroid 216 Kleopatra:
Movie of the radar model of asteroid 216 Kleopatra in mpeg or avi format.
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Radar images organized by
relative rotation phase.Time delay (range) increases toward the bottom and Doppler frequency increases toward the right, so the asteroid's rotation is counterclockwise.
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Shape reconstruction
results. Each quadrant shows Arecibo radar images from one date (top), corresponding images calculated from the shape model (middle), and corresponding plane-of-sky views of the model (bottom). Each scale bar is 100 km long.
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Views of the Kleopatra shape
model parallel to its principal axes of inertia.The scale bar is 100 km long.
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Gravitational slopes on
Kleopatra.Their shallowness suggests a surface covered by unconsolidated porous debris. [Graphics: Shigeru Suzuki and Eric DeJong, JPL Digital Image Animation Laboratory]
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