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Asteroids, Comets, and Other Worlds Pictures

The Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Every round object in the solar system under 10,000 kilometers in diameter, to scale (2014 version, update available)

Relative sizes of objects in the Pluto system represented by objects from the Saturn system (annotated)

Pluto, Charon, Orcus, and Vanth compared

Eros and Itokawa at similar scales

Asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of December 2012, in color, excepting Vesta [DEPRECATED]

All asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of August 2014, in color, albedo linearly scaled

Vesta, as seen by Dawn and Hubble

Every round object in the solar system, to scale (widescreen)

Vesta, Enceladus, Miranda, Mimas

Comets visited by spacecraft

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