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Pallas

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

Sun
The path of Pallas 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
2.77 au from the Sun on average
Once round
4.609 years
Path
a long oval (eccentricity 0.231), tilted 34.9°
Size
513 km across

The third largest asteroid, on a steeply tilted orbit.

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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.