In the Solar System · tracked live
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A small main-belt asteroid, here because Lucy passed it in November 2023 as an engineering test and found a moon nobody had suspected - and the moon turned out to be two touching lobes, the first contact binary ever seen orbiting another asteroid. It is a reminder of how little a point of light gives away: everything interesting about this one was discovered in the four minutes it took to fly past.
- Radius
- 0 km
- Around the equator
- 2 km
- From the Sun
- 317,837,459 km (+194,616 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 452,486,357 km (-482,982 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 25 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.