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Bootes III is an overdensity in the Milky Way’s halo which may be a disrupted dwarf spheroidal galaxy. It is situated in the Bootes constellation and was discovered in 2009 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at the distance of about 46 kpc from the Sun and moves away the Sun with the speed of about 200 km/s. It has an elongated shape (axis ratio of 2:1) with the radius of about 0.5 kpc.