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Loading contentThe rocky and icy small bodies of the Solar System — where they live, what they are made of, how they group into families and populations, how spacecraft explore them, and how near-Earth objects are tracked. Built on real MPC/JPL data that reuses the platform's dwarf planets, asteroids, and missions; nothing is fabricated.
One of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, visited by NASA's Dawn.
Basaltic fragments blasted from the giant south-polar impact basin of 4 Vesta — the source of the HED meteorites found on Earth.
The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, home to the great majority of known asteroids — from the dwarf planet Ceres down to countless small bodies.
The largest class of near-Earth asteroids — Earth-crossers with orbits mostly larger than Earth's, named after 1862 Apollo.