Asteroid
Lutetia
Rosetta flew past it in 2010 and found a dense, ancient body covered in a deep layer of dust.
- Size
- 121 × 101 × 75 km
- Orbit
- 3.8 years
- Distance from Sun
- 2 to 2.8 AU
- Day
- 8.2 hours
- Gravity
- 0.0048 g
- Reflects
- 19% of sunlight
- Visited by
- Rosetta, 2010
Can we live on Lutetia?
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: Primitive rock, perhaps a leftover building block of planets.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by Rosetta