Orbit from osculating elements
2 Pallas is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit at the simulation time (a = 2.8 AU, e = 0.2305, i = 34.8°, period 1,686 d).
Third-largest asteroid by volume and second asteroid ever discovered. Has an unusually high orbital inclination.
One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.
2 Pallas is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit at the simulation time (a = 2.8 AU, e = 0.2305, i = 34.8°, period 1,686 d).
2 Pallas: mean radius 256 km; mass 2.110 × 10^20 kg. These values are bundled with the object record and drive the rendered size.
The surface is a procedural shape unless a source record above says otherwise. It is not a measured shape model.
The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.
| Dataset | Last refreshed | Horizon | Automated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current comets and near-Earth asteroids | no snapshot date | Osculating elements at the snapshot epoch; propagated as two-body conics | Yes, weekly (Monday data job) npm run fetch:data |