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Artist impression of asteroid Toutatis

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-ast99-95002

Image Size 300 DPI: 23 * 20 cm

4179 Toutatis is an Apollo asteroid with a chaotic orbit. Being about 4.6 km across, it is listed as a potentially hazardous object, although the probability of a collision with Earth is considered to be very small.

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1989 - 4179 TOUTATIS - ASTEROID - ASTRONOMY - ILLUSTRATION -