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A set of three craters, informally nicknamed “Snowman” by the camera’s team members, is located in the northern hemisphere of…
The Rheasilvia impact basin in Vesta’s south-polar region affected Vesta’s global shape and geology.
The crater Numisia is located just south of the equator in the Numisia quadrangle on Vesta. Bright material appears in…
Bennu is a relatively small asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years. Bennu was the target of…
In 2005, 25143 Itokawa became the first asteroid from which samples were captured and brought to Earth for analysis. The…
Asteroid (8567) 1996 HW1 was discovered on 23 April 1996 by T. Gehrels as part of the Spacewatch survey at…
Asteroid 6489 “Golevka” is relatively inconspicuous by near- Earth asteroid standards. It is only one half-kilometer (.33 mile) across, although…
4486 Mithra is an eccentric asteroid and suspected contact-binary, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid, approximately 2 kilometers…
The radar data images of asteroid Toutatis indicate that it is an elongated, irregularly shaped object with ridges and perhaps…
