25143 Itokawa

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25143 Itokawa (/ˌiːtoʊˈkɑːwə/; Japanese: イトカワ [itokawa]) is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample return mission the Japanese space probe Hayabusa.

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apoapsis (km)

2.53568e+11

average speed (km/s)

91332.0

orbital period (μ)

4.80691e+07

periapsis (km)

1.42567e+11

temperature (K)

206.0

absolute magnitude

19.2

albedo

0.53

discovery date

1998-09-26

discoverer

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

epoch

18 August 2005 (JD 2453600.5)

escape velocity (kmh)

0.72

rotation period (s)

43675.2