Asteroid
Pallas
Pallas is an asteroid in the main belt, between Mars and Jupiter.
Its orbit is tilted 35 degrees out of the plane everything else moves in, which is why no spacecraft has ever been sent.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 2 Pallas
- Diameter
- 512 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 5 years
- Closest to the Sun
- 2.13 au
How the map draws it
Drawn as a generic asteroid — the kind of thing, not this exact one.