Eros
At a glance
- Type
- Asteroid
- Distance
- Solar System
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Brown
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- In 2001 NASA's NEAR Shoemaker landed on Eros, the first spacecraft ever to land on an asteroid.
- Found in 1898, Eros was the first known asteroid whose path brings it close to Earth.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q16711 · All space objects · All entries