Asteroids
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Main-belt 
asteroids
seen from Earth
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Asteroid Vesta seen in night sky. Vesta is the brightest asteroid.
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Movement of Vesta over two nights against starry background
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Asteroid Pallas (infrared view)
Near-Earth asteroids
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Discovery trail of Toutatis by Alain Maury
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Near-Earth asteroid 2002NY40, which passed 750,000 km from Earth on 17-18 August 2002.
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Artwork of collision of dino-killer asteroid with Earth
Closeups of main-belt asteroids
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Ceres, the largest main-belt asteroid, photographed with the Hubble Space Telescope. No detail is visible, but the object is nearly spherical
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Vesta, photographed with the Hubble Space Telescope. Some detail visible, and the object is not spherical
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Three versions of HST Vesta image: original image, model based on the image, and false-colour composition version
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Rotation series of Vesta from Hubble Space Telescope
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Map of Vesta and false-colour composition map from HST
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The five well-photographed asteroids to scale and where possible in colour: Mathilde, Eros, Gaspra, Ida and Dactyl
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Earth-crossing asteroid Eros, photographed by Near-Shoemaker craft. Simulated colour
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Another view of Eros
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Eros
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Detail of Eros
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Detail of Eros
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Last image taken by Near-Shoemaker before it landed on Eros
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Asteroid Ida, from Galileo spacecraft. Black and white
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Ida and satellite Dactyl in simulated colour
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Ida's satellite asteroid Dactyl
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Two views of asteroid Gaspra: natural colour and enhanced colour
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Asteroid Mathilde, photographed by Near-Shoemaker craft
Outer asteroids and Kuiper-Belt Objects (cubewanos)
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Centaur-group asteroid Chiron, photographed from Earth. Moves between orbits of Saturn and Uranus
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Kuiper Belt Object 1995 QY9. Pair of images show motion over 3 hours
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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.