Main Asteroid Belt

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 second-most-massive asteroid and the brightest as seen from Earth, a differentiated basaltic body and the parent of the Vesta family, orbited by NASA's Dawn.

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.

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

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.

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

A large metal-rich main-belt asteroid, the destination of NASA's Psyche mission to study a possible exposed planetary core.

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

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

The parent body of the Eos family, a large K-type asteroid in the outer main belt.

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