433 Eros is a stony asteroid of the Amor group, and the first discovered, and second-largest near-Earth object. It has an elongated shape and a volume-equivalent diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers (10.4 miles).

Nov 3, 2024 · Eros is famous as the first asteroid to be orbited by a spacecraft, and the first asteroid to have a spacecraft land on it. But Eros was important to astronomers as far back as 1898 when it became the first near-Earth asteroid (NEA) to be discovered.

433 Eros is the first Near-Earth asteroid (NEA) that was found. It was named after the Greek god of love, Eros (Greek Ἔρως). It is an S-type asteroid about 13 × 13 × 33 km in size, the second-biggest near-Earth asteroid (NEA) after 1036 Ganymed. It belongs to the Amors.

Sep 25, 2019 · 433 Eros is an S-type asteroid orbiting the Sun mostly between the orbits of Earth and Mars. orbit: 172,800,000 km from the Sun (average) size: 33x13x13 km. Eros was the Greek god of love and desire.

Mar 19, 2025 · Eros approaches the earth more closely than any other body except the moon. It is a remarkable circumstance that it was discovered when it was near its aphelion and consequently in conditions...

Eros orbits the sun every 643 days (1.76 years), coming as close as 1.13 AU and reaching as far as 1.78 AU from the sun. Eros is about 16.8 kilometers in diameter, making it larger than 99% of asteroids, comparable in size to the city of Philadelphia.

Nov 2, 2024 · NASA's NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker spacecraft landed on the surface of the 21-mile long asteroid Eros on February 12, 2001. This image mosaic shows Eros' southern hemisphere, offering a long-distance look at the cratered terrain where the spacecraft touched down.

Dec 9, 2022 · 433 Eros is an Amor asteroid, these asteroids are ones whose path crosses that of Mars but not the Earth. They are named after the first of its class to be identified, Amor. They are potentially hazardous asteroids, a risk they could collide, but the risk is very tiny.

Sep 21, 2000 · Eros, the chunky asteroid named after the god of love, is slowly revealing to scientists the mysteries of its size, rotation and other properties.

433 Eros is an S-type asteroid that was discovered on Aug. 13, 1898 by Gustav Witt, director of the Urania observatory in Berlin, and independently on the same day by Auguste H.P. Charlois at Nice, France.