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Itokawa

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The path of Itokawa 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 paths of the Earth and Mars. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.

Kind: Asteroid
Distance: 1.324 au from the Sun on average
Once round: 556.5 days
Path: a long oval (eccentricity 0.28), tilted 1.62°
Size: 0.33 km across

Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft brought grains of it back to Earth in 2010.

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What it looks like
What it is made of
How it was found
Spacecraft that have visited
Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.