Asteroids and Comets Visited by Spacecraft • Vissiniti

Graphics showing all of the asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft.

Last updated: 20 April 2025

Not to scale, but sized and distributed to give an idea of increasing size and distance.

For a comparative view of the 22 largest objects in the asteroid belt, click here.

For a discussion about the different asteroid spectral types, read History of Asteroid Classification.

For a discussion about the difference between asteroids and comets, read Asteroid vs Comet.

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Asteroids visited by spacecraft. The graphic shows: 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta (NASA Dawn mission), 21 Lutetia (ESA Rosetta mission), 243 Ida and Dactyl (NASA Galileo mission), 253 Mathilde (NASA NEAR Shoemaker mission), 433 Eros (NASA NEAR SHiemaker mission), 951 Gaspra (NASA Galileo mission), 2867 Šteins (ESA Rosetta mission), 4179 Toutatis (CNSA Chang’e 2 mission), 5535 Annefrank (NASA Stardust mission), 9969 Braille (NASA Deep Space 1 mission), 52246 Donaldjohanson (NASA Lucy mission), 101955 Bennu (NASA OSIRIS-Rex mission), 152830 Dinkinesh and Selam (NASA Lucy mission), 162173 Ryugu (JAXA Hayabusa2 mission), 25143 Itokawa (JAXA Hayabusa mission), 65803 Didymos and Dimorphos (NASA DART mission). — Image credits:
**1 Ceres:** NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA (PIA 19557)
**4 Vesta:** NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA (PIA 14317)
**21 Lutetia:** ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (image 47590)
**243 Ida & Dactyl:** NASA/JPL/USGS (PIA 00333)
**253 Mathilde:** NASA/JPL/JHUAPL (PIA 02494)
**433 Eros:** NASA/JPL/JHUAPL (PIA 02923)
**951 Gaspra:** NASA/JPL (PIA 00118)
**2867 Šteins:** ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (image 43356)
**4179 Toutatis:** CNSA/CAS (image)
**5535 Annefrank:** NASA/JPL-Caltech (PIA 02885)
**9969 Braille:** NASA/JPL/USGS (PIA 01345)
**52246 Donaldjohanson:** NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL (image) (mission)
**101955 Bennu:** NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona (image)
**152830 Dinkinesh & Selam:** NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO (image) (mission)
**162173 Ryugu:** JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, Aizu University, AIST (image)
**25143 Itokawa:** ISAS/JAXA (image)
**65803 Didymos & Dimorphos:** NASA/Johns Hopkins APL (images)

Trans-Neptunian Object 486958 Arrokoth is not included, but as at 1 January 2019 it became the farthest object in the Solar System to be visited by a spacecraft, at 44.58 AU.

Image credits:
**1P/Halley**: ESA/MPS (HMC 68)
**9P/Tempel 1** (Deep Impact): NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD (PIA 02137)
**9P/Tempel 1** (Stardust NeXT): NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell (PIA 13860)
**19P/Borrelly**: NASA/JPL (PIA 03500)
**67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko**: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM (image)
**81P/Wild 2**: NASA/JPL (PIA 05579)
**103P/Hartley 2**: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD (PIA 13570)

Orbits of asteroids visited by spacecraft as at 9 August 2018 of all asteroids visited by space missions (graphic - part of an infographic series depicting asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft). — *Image credits: CNSA (Toutatis), ESA (Šteins, Lutetia), JAXA (Itokawa, Ryugu), NASA (Annefrank, Bennu, Braille, Ceres, Eros, Gaspra, Ida & Dactyl, Mathilde, Vesta).* Not to scale.

The Shape of Asteroids - The Potato Radius — *Image credits*: [**2867, 21***] ESA; [*16*] ESO/LAM/P. Vernazza; [**1, 4***] NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.* *Psyche has not yet been visited so this is a shape model — *the asteroid will be visited by a spacecraft in 2028.* Not to scale.

Solar System Distances AU — *Mini image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech (Messenger, Magellan, Viking, Voyager, Cassini, New Horizons).*