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Gaspra
A small stony asteroid in the inner belt, here because it was the first asteroid anybody ever photographed from close up: Galileo passed it in October 1991 and turned a point of light into a cratered, irregular object 18 km long. Every picture on this map of a rock that is not a smooth ball descends from that one.
- Radius
- 6 km
- Around the equator
- 38 km
- From the Sun
- 382,687,848 km (+108,913 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 526,628,290 km (-383,727 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 29 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.