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The following tables list all minor planets and comets that have been visited by robotic spacecraft.
File:Small Asteroids and Comets Visited by Spacecraft.jpg, Minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft as of 2019 (except Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta), to scale
File:Asteroidsscale.jpg, The comparative sizes of the first eight asteroids visited by spacecraft
The following tables list all minor planets and comets that have been visited by robotic spacecraft.
List of minor planets visited by spacecraft
A total of 17 minor planets (asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
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s, dwarf planets, and Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt () is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times ...
objects) have been visited by space probes. Moons (not directly orbiting the Sun) and planets are not minor planets and thus are not included in the table below.
Incidental flybys
In addition to the above listed objects, four asteroids have been imaged by spacecraft at distances too large to resolve features (over 100,000 km), and are labeled as such.List of comets visited by spacecraft
Spacecraft visited by comets
Comet C/2013 A1 passed close by planet Mars in October 2014, closer than the Moon is to Earth. As of early 2014 it was calculated to pass as close as . This was so close that the event was deemed dangerous to spacecraft in orbit around Mars. Spacecraft that were active at that time included ''2001 Mars Odyssey
''2001 Mars Odyssey'' is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to use spectr ...
'', '' Mars Express'', MAVEN, Mars Orbiter Mission, and '' Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter'' in Mars orbit – and two on the surface – Mars Exploration Rover'' Opportunity'' and the Mars Science Laboratory '' Curiosity''.
Future visits
Planned
Proposals
The following table lists minor planets that are proposed to be visited by spacecraft missions that have not yet been approved.Past proposals
Failed missions
Former targets for launched spacecraft.Cancelled or not developed missions
See also
* List of missions to minor planets *List of missions to comets
As of 2013, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the European Space Agency have conducted missions to comets.
See also
*List of missions to minor planets (includes asteroids)
*List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft ...
* List of missions to the outer planets
A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter, with four spacecraft also visiting Saturn. One spacecraft, ''Voyager 2'', also visited Uranus a ...
* List of Solar System probes
* List of landings on extraterrestrial bodies
* List of extraterrestrial orbiters
References
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