Lutetia

Lutetia — asteroid, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Lutetia in a live 3D Solar System. Follow its calculated motion and inspect real astronomical data, distances and orbital facts.

Rosetta flew past this large, irregular asteroid in July 2010. This is the archived shape reconstructed from OSIRIS images. The neutral surface preserves the measured terrain without inventing a photographic map; poorly observed regions remain less certain.

Model

ESA/Rosetta OSIRIS · Jorda et al. · NASA PDS 2013

Model extent

112 × 121 × 84.7 km

Surface

Neutral material; no photographic surface map

Trajectory

JPL SBDB osculating elements · two-body approximation

Attitude

Illustrative; not a predicted pole orientation

Explore Lutetia in 3D

Cosmoscope places Lutetia in the Solar System using astronomical ephemeris or orbital elements, updated for the simulation time. Explore its calculated motion, distance and orbital facts in the interactive 3D view. Accuracy depends on the orbital model and its valid time range.