25143 Itokawa

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Place

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

25143 Itokawa (provisional designation 1998 SF36) is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and also a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was discovered by the LINEAR program in 1998 and later named after Japanese rocket engineer Hideo Itokawa.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “25143 Itokawa”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: ISAS, JAXA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.