433 Eros

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433 Eros is a near-Earth, elongated S-type asteroid that was the first asteroid to be orbited and landed on by a spacecraft.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mars-crosser asteroid
S-type asteroid
asteroid
near-Earth asteroid
absoluteMagnitude_H 10.4
albedo 0.25
aphelionDistance_au 1.783
argumentOfPerihelion_deg 178.7
ascendingNodeLongitude_deg 304.4
belongsTo inner Solar System
belongsToDynamicalClass near-Earth object
closestApproachToEarth_km about 22,000,000
density_g_per_cm3 2.67
dimensions_km 34.4 × 11.2 × 11.2
discoverer Carl Gustav Witt NERFINISHED
Felix Linke NERFINISHED
discoveryDate 1898-08-13
discoverySite Berlin Urania Observatory NERFINISHED
eccentricity 0.223
firstAsteroidLandedOnBySpacecraft true
firstAsteroidOrbitedBySpacecraft true
firstLandedOnBy NEAR Shoemaker NERFINISHED
firstOrbitedBy NEAR Shoemaker NERFINISHED
hasNaturalSatellite false
inclination_deg 10.8
mass_kg 6.69e15
meanAnomaly_deg 178.9
meanDiameter_km 16.8
minimumOrbitIntersectionDistanceWithEarth_au 0.148
missionOperator NASA NERFINISHED
missionProgram Discovery Program NERFINISHED
mpcName (433) Eros NERFINISHED
mpcNumber 433
namedAfter Eros NERFINISHED
Greek god of love
notableCrater Psyche crater NERFINISHED
orbitalCategory Amor group
orbitalPeriod_days 643
perihelionDistance_au 1.133
rotationPeriod_hours 5.27
semiMajorAxis_au 1.458
shape elongated
spacecraftLandingDate 2001-02-12
spacecraftOrbitInsertionDate 2000-02-14
spectralType S
surfaceFeatures boulders
craters
regolith
visitedBySpacecraft NEAR Shoemaker NERFINISHED

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amor group hasMember 433 Eros
NASA Discovery Program target 433 Eros
subject surface form: NEAR Shoemaker