 | 4179 Toutatis (provisional designation 1989 AC) is an elongated, stony asteroid and slow rotator, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous... 27 KB (2,346 words) - 01:10, 19 January 2024 |
uncertain. It is believed Toutatis was a title for the tutelary gods of various tribes. Miranda Aldhouse-Green suggests that Toutatis was an epithet or description... 11 KB (1,191 words) - 10:04, 9 May 2024 |
 | Chang'e 2 (section 4179 Toutatis mission) Chang'e 2 departed L2 to begin an extended mission to the asteroid 4179 Toutatis, which it successfully flew by in December 2012. This success made China's... 22 KB (2,151 words) - 23:16, 26 July 2023 |
 | the TT&C network. Having done that it completed a flyby of asteroid 4179 Toutatis on 13 December 2012, before heading into deep space to further test... 34 KB (2,978 words) - 04:15, 13 May 2024 |
August 2016. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(4179) Toutatis". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (4179) Toutatis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 357–358... 5 KB (225 words) - 21:19, 20 May 2022 |
 | samples back to Earth. A third NEA, the 2.26 km (1.40 mi) long elongated 4179 Toutatis, was explored by CNSA's Chang'e 2 spacecraft during a flyby in December... 146 KB (15,328 words) - 11:16, 6 May 2024 |
 | is strikingly similar to that of 4179 Toutatis in eccentricity, semi-major axis, and inclination. However, Toutatis is better known due to a close approach... 6 KB (426 words) - 21:24, 14 January 2024 |
2012, the Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 made a flyby of the asteroid 4179 Toutatis in an extended mission. With a distance of over 7 million kilometers... 28 KB (2,454 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2024 |
 | lunar orbit to the Earth-Sun L2 point, then on to fly by the asteroid 4179 Toutatis.[citation needed] The asteroid 39P/Oterma's path from outside Jupiter's... 17 KB (1,862 words) - 01:45, 28 April 2024 |
making them good subjects for study by Earth-based radar. Examples are 4179 Toutatis and 6489 Golevka, as well as 2019 MO, which impacted Earth in June 2019... 5 KB (410 words) - 13:40, 11 January 2024 |
 | contact binary which has resulted in an elongated, bent body. Asteroid 4179 Toutatis with its elongated shape, as photographed by Chang'e-2, is a contact... 31 KB (3,072 words) - 06:16, 22 December 2023 |
 | onto a heliocentric orbit that took it past the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis. The ESA Gaia probe The joint Russian-German high-energy astrophysics... 37 KB (2,503 words) - 19:19, 24 February 2024 |
 | 2 km APO 2.134 0.576 8.9 0.904 3.363 0.03010 — MPC · JPL · catalog 4179 Toutatis 1989 010 C. Pollas 15.30 2.5 km APO 2.536 0.629 0.4 0.940 4.132 0.00615... 32 KB (1,771 words) - 02:28, 13 February 2024 |
 | in 1930 1999 LE31 approaches to Jupiter and Saturn Chang'E 2 images of Toutatis – December 13, 2012 – The Planetary Society "1994 Release #9412" (Press... 83 KB (2,478 words) - 08:35, 19 April 2024 |
 | rotation is believed to be "tumbling", similar to the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis. It is a common, stony S-type asteroid in both the Tholen and SMASS... 4 KB (231 words) - 14:42, 25 December 2023 |
 | orbiting Ceres 2007-043A 4179 Toutatis Chang'e 2 CNSA 13 December 2012 flyby success came within 3.2 km (2.0 mi) to Toutatis 2010-050A 2000 DP107 PROCYON... 147 KB (2,937 words) - 01:32, 14 May 2024 |
President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached. 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. 2004 – Burt Rutan's Ansari... 142 KB (13,487 words) - 18:20, 5 May 2024 |
the Solar System, including Saturn's moon Hyperion and the asteroid 4179 Toutatis, lack a stable north pole. They rotate chaotically because of their... 7 KB (1,013 words) - 06:16, 4 February 2023 |
 | 034 6.843 7.224 16.0 1333–4306 data 4179 Toutatis 1992-12-08 9.399 9.399 9.399 15.30 2440–2450 data 4179 Toutatis 2004-09-29 4.031 4.031 4.031 15.30 2440–2450... 25 KB (2,130 words) - 21:22, 14 January 2024 |
 | can be given, replacing the provisional part of the designation, e.g. 4179 Toutatis. (On Wikipedia, named minor planets also drop their parentheses.) In... 109 KB (3,163 words) - 22:13, 8 May 2024 |
 | Sept Papillons (2000; solo cello) Orion (2002; orchestra) Asteroid 4179: Toutatis (2005; orchestra) La Passion de Simone (2006; oratorio/opera) Adriana... 30 KB (2,734 words) - 15:49, 25 March 2024 |
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radar astronomy. Radar 6489 Golevka 4179 Toutatis Anderson, John D.; Slade, Martin A.; Jurgens, Raymond F.; Lau, Eunice... 14 KB (1,512 words) - 19:28, 18 April 2024 |
 | Radar image of asteroid 4179 Toutatis.... 62 KB (6,421 words) - 18:05, 3 May 2024 |
 | comets with a resolution of several meters. For example, the asteroid 4179 Toutatis was imaged in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. Although spacecraft... 5 KB (569 words) - 10:03, 13 August 2023 |
 | 2012, Chang'e 2 was dispatched on an extended mission to the asteroid 4179 Toutatis. The official mission objective is to achieve China's first soft-landing... 48 KB (4,056 words) - 12:38, 27 April 2024 |
 | slow and possibly chaotic rotation period, similar to that of asteroid 4179 Toutatis. In July 1999, a rotational lightcurve of 1999 JM8 was obtained from... 15 KB (956 words) - 19:53, 14 January 2024 |
fly by two near-Earth asteroids, 433 Eros and 4179 Toutatis planned by NASA. The probe impact at Toutatis was needed to obtain the dynamic strength of... 2 KB (245 words) - 18:55, 4 April 2022 |
 | Camillo † 3753 Cruithne 3838 Epona 4015 Wilson–Harrington † 4034 Vishnu 4179 Toutatis 4183 Cuno 4197 Morpheus 4257 Ubasti 4341 Poseidon 4450 Pan 4486 Mithra... 12 KB (1,221 words) - 06:46, 29 April 2024 |
 | UT) and Dr. Michael F. A'Hearn, 10 April 2013, United States Congress 4179 Toutatis Asteroid deflection Asteroid mining Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last... 18 KB (1,178 words) - 04:44, 23 February 2023 |
 | 2010 Solar monitoring Chang'e 2 1 October 2010 Lunar orbiter, asteroid 4179 Toutatis flyby Juno 5 August 2011 Jupiter orbiter GRAIL 10 September 2011 Two... 174 KB (8,643 words) - 08:49, 9 May 2024 |