In the Solar System · tracked live
Lutetia
A hundred-kilometre asteroid in the main belt, here because Rosetta went past it in July 2010 on the way to its comet - the largest asteroid anything had seen close up at the time. It photographed a heavily cratered surface and measured a density high enough that Lutetia is probably a primordial body that never broke up, one of the few left.
- Radius
- 49 km
- Around the equator
- 308 km
- From the Sun
- 314,248,319 km (-173,902 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 343,910,291 km (+1,360,330 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 19 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.