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.
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