Carbonaceous Asteroids

The largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to the Sun — the first minor planet discovered, and the only one visited by the Dawn orbiter in the inner Solar System.

The third-most-massive asteroid, on a notably inclined orbit, the second minor planet ever discovered.

The fourth-largest asteroid and the largest carbonaceous one, nearly spherical, the parent of the Hygiea family.

One of the largest main-belt asteroids, a dark, primitive carbonaceous body.

One of the largest carbonaceous main-belt asteroids — not to be confused with Jupiter's moon Europa.

One of the largest main-belt asteroids, a dark carbonaceous body.

One of the largest asteroids, on a highly inclined orbit, the namesake of the Euphrosyne family.

A large outer-main-belt asteroid and the first asteroid found to have two moons — Romulus and Remus — making it the first known triple asteroid system.

A large carbonaceous outer-main-belt asteroid, parent of the Themis family, on whose surface water ice has been detected.

The namesake of the Hilda group, whose members orbit in a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter in the outer main belt.

A carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid visited by Japan's Hayabusa2, which returned surface and subsurface samples to Earth in 2020.

A small, carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx, whose material was returned to Earth in 2023.