SpazeAsteroid, B-type
Pallas
Third-largest asteroid, on a steeply tilted orbit that makes it hard to reach. Covered in craters like a golf ball.
- Size
- 568 × 532 × 448 km
- Orbit
- 4.6 years
- Distance from Sun
- 2.1 to 3.4 AU
- Day
- 7.8 hours
- Gravity
- 0.021 g
- Reflects
- 16% of sunlight
Can we live on Pallas?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.02 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 1 kg there.
Ground: Carbonaceous rock with hydrated minerals.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by VLT SPHERE