21 Lutetia size and scale context

Lutetia is a large M-type asteroid in the main belt and a likely surviving primordial planetesimal. The Rosetta spacecraft flew past it in 2010, making it the largest asteroid then visited by a probe. Read its scale context, comparisons, and journey links on the canonical object page.

243 IdaS-type main-belt asteroid·59.8 km
253 MathildeC-type main-belt asteroid·66 km
21 LutetiaM-type main-belt asteroid·121 km
4 VestaProtoplanetary asteroid·573 km

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