Asteroid
14 bodies
Vesta
The second largest object in the asteroid belt. Visited by the Dawn spacecraft in 2011. Ha...
Bennu
A near-Earth asteroid studied by the OSIRIS-REx mission. Samples were returned to Earth in...
Pallas
The third most massive asteroid, holding about 7 percent of the belt mass. Its orbit is ti...
Hygiea
The fourth largest object in the asteroid belt, holding about 3 percent of its mass. Disco...
Juno
The third asteroid ever discovered, found by Karl Harding in 1804. Once ranked as a full p...
Eros
The first near-Earth asteroid ever discovered, found in 1898. Became the first asteroid or...
Gaspra
The first asteroid ever encountered by a spacecraft, imaged by Galileo during its Jupiter ...
Ida
The first asteroid found to have a moon. Galileo imaged its tiny companion Dactyl in 1993,...
Mathilde
A dark C-type asteroid visited by the NEAR spacecraft in 1997 on its way to Eros. Reflects...
Lutetia
A large asteroid visited by the European Rosetta spacecraft in July 2010, imaged from 3,00...
Sylvia
The first asteroid known to have two moons, making it a triple system. Its companions, Rom...
Kleopatra
A metallic asteroid shaped like a dog bone, revealed by radar imaging in 2000. The elongat...
Hektor
The largest of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, orbiting 60 degrees ahead of the planet. An e...
Psyche
A metal-rich asteroid thought to be the exposed core of a shattered protoplanet. Composed ...