Key facts
- Category
- Asteroids
- Object class
- E-type main-belt asteroid
- Scale fact
- 6.83 kmmaximum extent
- Composition
- Iron-poor silicate rock
2867 Šteins
6.83 kmmaximum extent
Explore 2867 Šteins to scaleVisual creditRosetta 2008 / ESA / OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOSource: Wikimedia Commons
Details
Šteins is a small E-type asteroid in the main belt, shaped like a cut diamond. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft flew past it in 2008 and revealed a body topped by a surprisingly large impact crater.
Rosetta passed within about 800 kilometers of Šteins on 5 September 2008. Its images measured a diamond-like body roughly five kilometers wide, dominated at one end by the two-kilometer Diamond crater. A line of smaller craters crosses the surface, but images alone do not establish whether they formed in one event or how material subsequently moved inside the asteroid.
Links
- Preset views
- Wikipedia
- 2867 Šteins on Wikipedia
Size neighbors
Objects near 2867 Šteins on the scale
On the logarithmic size axis, 2867 Šteins falls between 5535 Annefrank and 9P/Tempel 1. The band uses nearby Asteroids records.
Shared physical scale
26.0km
Sources
References for 2867 Šteins
Measurements and descriptive context are compiled by the Scale of Space team from the references below. If you find an error, please let us know.
- 2867 Šteins — Wikipedia
- Visual reference: Wikimedia Commons (Rosetta 2008 / ESA / OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
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