asteroid
Pallas
A highly inclined main-belt world.
Pallas follows a noticeably tilted and eccentric orbit through the asteroid belt.
- Orbit representation
- Representative mean elements
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 256 km
- Semi-major axis
- 2.772 AU
- Orbital period
- 4.616 Earth yearsKeplerian estimate from the catalogued semi-major axis.
- Eccentricity
- 0.231
- Inclination
- 34.841°
- Visual geometry
- irregular
Orbital character
An orbit lifted well beyond the planetary plane
Pallas follows a catalogued path with a 2.772 AU semi-major axis, eccentricity 0.231, and 34.841° inclination. The resulting two-body period estimate is 4.616 Earth years; the representation notes below state the source epoch and precision boundary used by Explore.
Catalogue context
Pallas among its nearest Helios peers
Pallas is linked with Ceres, Vesta, Hygiea inside the Helios main-belt selection. The grouping keeps adjacent reading coherent; it does not imply that these bodies share the same composition, origin, or present physical state.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
A published JPL SBDB sample element set is propagated with a two-body solver for visual preview only; use Horizons for accurate ephemerides.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance