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All asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of December 2012, in color, albedo linearly scaled

All asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of December 2012, in color, albedo linearly scaled
All asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of December 2012, in color, albedo linearly scaled Montage by Emily Lakdawalla. Ida, Dactyl, Braille, Annefrank, Gaspra, Borrelly: NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk. Steins: ESA / OSIRIS team. Eros: NASA / JHUAPL. Itokawa: ISAS / JAXA / Emily Lakdawalla. Mathilde: NASA / JHUAPL / Ted Stryk. Lutetia: ESA / OSIRIS team / Emily Lakdawalla. Halley: Russian Academy of Sciences / Ted Stryk. Tempel 1, Hartley 2: NASA / JPL / UMD. Wild 2: NASA / JPL.