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| Main-belt
asteroids seen from Earth 
as-7597.jpg Asteroid Vesta seen in night sky. Vesta is the brightest asteroid. |
vesta2d.jpg Movement of Vesta over two nights against starry background |
pallas2mass.jpg Asteroid Pallas (infrared view) |
Near-Earth
asteroids
toutatis2.jpg Discovery trail of Toutatis by Alain Maury |
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2002NY40.jpg Near-Earth asteroid 2002NY40, which passed 750,000 km from Earth on 17-18 August 2002. |
IMPACT2.JPG Artwork of collision of dino-killer asteroid with Earth |
Closeups
of main-belt asteroids
cer1ragauss.jpg Ceres, the largest main-belt asteroid, photographed with the Hubble Space Telescope. No detail is visible, but the object is nearly spherical |
VESTA3.TIF Vesta, photographed with the Hubble Space Telescope. Some detail visible, and the object is not spherical |
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VESTA3.JPG Three versions of HST Vesta image: original image, model based on the image, and false-colour composition version |
9520a.jpg Rotation series of Vesta from Hubble Space Telescope |
9540.jpg Map of Vesta and false-colour composition map from HST |
5asts.jpg The five well-photographed asteroids to scale and where possible in colour: Mathilde, Eros, Gaspra, Ida and Dactyl |
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20000605.tif Earth-crossing asteroid Eros, photographed by Near-Shoemaker craft. Simulated colour |
20010207full.jpg Another view of Eros |
00217A.JPG Eros |
20000707.tif Detail of Eros |
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20000627.jpg Detail of Eros |
20010212f.jpg Last image taken by Near-Shoemaker before it landed on Eros |
PIA00135.tif Asteroid Ida, from Galileo spacecraft. Black and white |
PIA00136col.tif Ida and satellite Dactyl in simulated colour |
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dactyl1.jpg Ida's satellite asteroid Dactyl |
PIA00125.jpg Two views of asteroid Gaspra: natural colour and enhanced colour |
MATHILD2.JPG Asteroid Mathilde, photographed by Near-Shoemaker craft |
Outer
asteroids and Kuiper-Belt Objects (cubewanos)
chiron96.jpg Centaur-group asteroid Chiron, photographed from Earth. Moves between orbits of Saturn and Uranus |
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kb1.gif Kuiper Belt Object 1995 QY9. Pair of images show motion over 3 hours |
qb1.gif The first Kuiper Belt Object to be discovered, 1992 QB1, photographed by Dave Jewitt. This object has given its name to the class of objects - cubewanos. |