A team of astronomers has come across an asteroid that looks like a dog bone as it moves around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
The asteroid named Kleopatra has two moons and is considered to be one of the unique masses in the solar system as it spins at a stunning speed.
The images of the 168-mile long and 58-mile wide space mass were captured between 2017 and 2019 with the help of a Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama desert.
“Kleopatra is truly a unique body in our solar system.” Dr. Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute in California said. “Science makes a lot of progress thanks to the study of weird outliers.”
He added that the space object is closest to 125 million miles from the Earth.
