Asteroid
25143 Itokawa
25143 Itokawa is a near-Earth object on its own orbit around the Sun.
A rubble pile the shape of a peanut. Hayabusa returned about 1 500 grains of it in 2010.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 25143 Itokawa
- Diameter
- 0.33 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 556 days
- Closest to the Sun
- 0.95 au
How the map draws it
Drawn from a published model of 25143 Itokawa · it turns about its measured pole at its measured rate; which side faces the Sun at this moment is not a prediction.