Radar imaging a small planet

[ via Yahoo News ] Using the Arecibo Observatory, a group of scientists bounced radar signals off the asteroid 216 Kleopatra and used the resulting data to build a model of it. Yahoo describes it as a ‘dog bone,’ but it looks more like a Buffalo Wing.

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