SpazeNear-Earth asteroid, S-type
Itokawa
A 330-metre rubble pile shaped like a sea otter. The first asteroid sample ever brought to Earth came from here.
- Size
- 0.535 × 0.294 × 0.209 km
- Orbit
- 553.9 days
- Distance from Sun
- 1 to 1.7 AU
- Day
- 12.1 hours
- Visited by
- Hayabusa, 2005
Can we live on Itokawa?
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: Loose silicate rubble, LL chondrite.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by Hayabusa sample