Selected Asteroids*

	Number	Name	Mean distance from Sun, AU
The first 20 asteroids discovered	1	Ceres	2.8
	2	Pallas	2.8
	3	Juno	2.7
	4	Vesta	2.4
	5	Astraea	2.6
	6	Hebe	2.4
	7	Iris	2.4
	8	Flora	2.2
	9	Metis	2.4
	10	Hygiea	3.2
	11	Parthenope	2.4
	12	Victoria	2.3
	13	Egeria	2.6
	14	Irene	2.6
	15	Eunomia	2.6
	16	Psyche	2.9
	17	Thetis	2.5
	18	Melpomene	2.3
	19	Fortuna	2.4
	20	Massalia	2.4
Close asteroids	433	Eros	1.5
	1566	Icarus	1.1
	1620	Geographos	1.2
	1862	Apollo	1.5
	(1937 UB)	Hermes	1.3
Trojan asteroids (all in Jupiter's orbit)	588	Achilles	5.2
	617	Patroclus	5.2
	624	Hector	5.2
	659	Nestor	5.2
	884	Priamus	5.2
	911	Agamemnon	5.2
	1143	Odysseus	5.2
	1172	Aeneas	5.2
	1173	Anchises	5.2
	1208	Troilus	5.2
	1404	Ajax	5.2
	1437	Diomedes	5.2
	1583	Antiochus	5.2
	1647	Menelaus	5.2
Explored by the Galileo spacecraft	951	Gaspra	2.2
	243	Ida (and Dactyl)	2.74 at perihelion

_{*This table is mainly from the 1965 edition of the Aerospace Dictionary.}

LINKS:

For further listings of asteroids see:
Asteroids Nomenclature Page
Asteroids Page
List Of The Larger Potentially Dangerous Minor Planets (Asteroids)
The Online database of "The Asteroid Photometric Catalogue"
NASA NEAT Page

ASTEROIDS definition

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