433 Eros
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| Mass | 6. 687 × 10^15 kg |
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| Radius | 8. 42 km |
| Orbital period | 643 days |
| Gravity | 0. 0059 m/s² |
| Spectral type | S-type asteroid |
| Did you know | The mission ended with a touchdown in the "saddle" region of Eros on February 12, 2001. |
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| ID | 961628 |
About 433 Eros
Eros, provisional designation 1898 DQ, is a stony and elongated asteroid of the Amor group and the first discovered and second-largest near-Earth object with a mean-diameter of approximately 16. 8 kilometers. Visited by the NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 1998, it became the first asteroid ever studied from orbit.