Asteroid · 433
Eros
Orbited and landed on by NEAR
NEAR Shoemaker mapped Eros from orbit before making a controlled landing in 2001. The images show a long, irregular body covered with craters and boulders.

Measurements
- Effective diameter
- 16.84 km
- Semimajor axis
- 1.458 AU
- Orbital period
- 643.196 Earth days
Orbit, physical values and uncertainties
- eccentricity
- .2228779627700761 ± 9.3902E-9
- semi-major axis
- 1.458243716760167 au ± 1.5185E-10
- perihelion distance
- 1.133233327946397 au ± 1.3695E-8
- inclination; angle with respect to x-y ecliptic plane
- 10.82854410314273 deg ± 1.158E-6
- longitude of the ascending node
- 304.2679713350896 deg ± 3.5792E-6
- argument of perihelion
- 178.9181319135911 deg ± 3.9825E-6
- mean anomaly
- 62.51145501986792 deg ± 1.4849E-6
- time of perihelion passage
- 2461088.813494039683 TDB ± 2.647E-6
- sidereal orbital period
- 643.1963890927677 d ± 1.0047E-7
- mean motion
- .5597046347038453 deg/d ± 8.7425E-11
- aphelion distance
- 1.783254105573937 au ± 1.8569E-10
- absolute magnitude
- 10.40
- magnitude slope
- 0.46
- diameter
- 16.84 km ± 0.06
- extent
- 34.4x11.2x11.2 km
- GM
- 4.463e-04 km^3/s^2 ± 0.001e-04
- bulk density
- 2.67 g/cm^3 ± 0.03
- rotation period
- 5.27 h
- pole direction
- 11.37/17.22 ± 0.05
- geometric albedo
- 0.25 ± 0.06
- B-V
- 0.921 ± 0.021
- U-B
- 0.531 ± 0.027
- Tholen spectral type
- S
- SMASSII spectral type
- S
Published JPL orbital elements describe their stated epoch; they are not current positions. Small-body diameters can be effective/model-dependent sizes, not spherical shapes. Missing measurements remain unavailable. Pluto’s diameter uses the New Horizons reference rather than an empty SBDB field. Orbital epoch: JD 2461200.5 TDB.
Object reference ↗Missions & milestones
1 launches · 0 connected events
These are target-related flights and every connected programme record in the production catalogue. A connected event may concern another stage or target of the same journey. Launch outcome does not establish arrival or current operation.
NEAR Shoemaker
February 17, 1996 · UTC
Complete source cohort: 9,386 records.
