SpazeNear-Earth asteroid, S-type
Eros
Shaped like a peanut. In 2001 NEAR Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, here.
- Size
- 34.4 × 11.2 × 11.2 km
- Orbit
- 644.3 days
- Distance from Sun
- 1.1 to 1.8 AU
- Day
- 5.3 hours
- Gravity
- 0.0006 g
- Reflects
- 25% of sunlight
- Visited by
- NEAR Shoemaker, 2000–2001
Can we live on Eros?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.00 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 0 kg there.
Ground: Silicate rock and regolith dust.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NEAR Shoemaker