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Every world / Asteroid

Eros

Outline The numbers here are measured. The rest of this page is being written.

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The path of Eros round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars; it crosses the path of Mars. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
1.458 au from the Sun on average
Once round
643.2 days
Path
a long oval (eccentricity 0.223), tilted 10.8°
Size
16.8 km across

The first asteroid a spacecraft orbited and landed on: NEAR Shoemaker, in 2000 and 2001.

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Still being written

  1. What it looks like
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have visited
  5. Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.