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Eros comparison table

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asteroid			celestial body								Also called planetoids or minor planets, the asteroids are tiny planets most of which orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The largest - and the first discovered - is Ceres, with a diameter of 1,003 km. It is estimated that there may altogether be no fewer than 40000. A few have very elliptical orbits and cross the orbits of several other (major) planets. One or two even have their own satellites (moons).
Eros	elongated	5h16m12s.913		1.084 AU	asteroid	642 days	35 × 16 × 17 km	1898	i = 10°.8	a = 1.48 AU	A small Asteroid.	433	< 0.15 AU	e = 0.223	G. Witt

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