433 Eros

433-eros-1752874785589-8e2a99

Description

433 Eros is a stony asteroid of the Amor group, and the first discovered, and second-largest near-Earth object. It has an elongated shape and a volume-equivalent diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers. Visited by the NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 1998, it became the first asteroid ever studied from its own orbit.

ID: 433-eros-1752874785589-8e2a99

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