Asteroid
433 Eros
433 Eros is a near-Earth object on its own orbit around the Sun.
The first asteroid anything ever orbited, and then landed on: NEAR Shoemaker, 2001.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 433 Eros
- Diameter
- 17 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 643 days
- Closest to the Sun
- 1.13 au
How the map draws it
Drawn from a published model of 433 Eros.