Silicaceous Asteroids

The largest stony (S-type) asteroid and the parent of the Eunomia family in the intermediate main belt.

The third asteroid ever discovered, a large stony main-belt body — one of the historic first four minor planets.

The parent of the large Flora family of stony asteroids in the inner main belt.

A near-Earth binary asteroid whose small moon, Dimorphos, was struck by NASA's DART in 2022 — humanity's first test of asteroid deflection.

A near-Earth asteroid famous for its very close but non-impacting approach to Earth on 13 April 2029; impacts for the foreseeable future have been ruled out by radar and tracking.

The first near-Earth asteroid discovered and the first to be orbited and landed on — by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker in 2000–2001.

A small stony near-Earth 'rubble-pile' asteroid, the first body from which samples were returned to Earth, by Japan's Hayabusa in 2010.

A Koronis-family main-belt asteroid imaged by the Galileo spacecraft in 1993, which revealed its tiny moon Dactyl — the first confirmed asteroid moon.

An elongated near-Earth asteroid in a chaotic, tumbling rotation, flown past by China's Chang'e 2 in 2012; it crosses both Earth's and Mars's orbits.

One of the most elongated known asteroids, a near-Earth Apollo object well characterised by radar.