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Mathilde

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

Sun
The path of Mathilde 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. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
2.647 au from the Sun on average
Once round
4.306 years
Path
a long oval (eccentricity 0.264), tilted 6.74°
Size
52.8 km across

Photographed by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft as it flew past in 1997.

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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.