Asteroids in fiction
After Ceres, Asteroid 433 Eros is perhaps the most-commonly mentioned asteroid, probably because it is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids.
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The asteroid has an estimated diameter of about based on an absolute magnitude of 21.3. is considered significant due to having previously passed closer to the Earth; on 11 April 1971, it passed Earth at a distance of . is one of the largest objects known to have passed inside the orbit of the moon. During the close approach in 1971 the asteroid reached about apparent magnitude 10, about the same brightness as Saturn's moon Iapetus.