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Steins
A small bright asteroid cut like a gemstone - the shape is real, and ESA said so at the time - photographed by Rosetta in September 2008 on the first of its two asteroid passes. It is here for the visit. The crater at its south pole is nearly half the width of the whole body, which for something this size is close to the limit of what it could survive.
- Radius
- 3 km
- Around the equator
- 17 km
- From the Sun
- 325,555,857 km (-224,531 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 447,553,291 km (+597,803 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.