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25143 Itokawa

Asteroid
25143 Itokawa is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was discovered by the LINEAR program in 1998 and later named after Japanese rocket engineer Hideo Itokawa. Wikipedia
Spectral type: S-type asteroid
Radius: 513.45′
Orbital period: 557 days
Mass: 35 billion kg
Discovered: September 26, 1998
Density: 1.9 g/cm³