Pallas in 3D — live position and orbit

The third-largest asteroid, and the very first to be discovered after Ceres, in 1802. Its steeply tilted orbit is so inclined that no spacecraft has ever visited it.

Pallas is shown at its real position, computed from NASA/JPL ephemeris data. The view opens on Pallas; you can travel in time, switch between the educational overview and the true-scale voyage, and compare it with every other body of the solar system.

Radius

256 km

Mass

2.04 × 10²⁰ kg

Surface gravity

0.21 m/s²

Mean temperature

-109 °C

Distance from the Sun

2.772 AU

Orbital period

1 686 days

Axial tilt

1.5°

Known moons

0