Pallas

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

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

The second asteroid ever found, on an orbit tilted so steeply that no spacecraft has visited it. VLT telescope images show a surface pocked like a golf ball by high-speed impacts.

Diameter

~513 km

Discovered

1802 — Heinrich Olbers, Bremen

Year

4.61 Earth years

Day

7 h 49 m

Orbit

Tilted 35° — far steeper than the other giant asteroids

Rank

Third-largest body in the asteroid belt

Model

ESO VLT/SPHERE imaging · Marsset et al. 2020

Attitude

Illustrative; not a predicted pole orientation

Explore Pallas in 3D

Cosmoscope places Pallas 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.