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.
4902 Thessandrus
The astronomers also detected a non-principal axis rotation seen in distinct rotational cycles in successive order. This is commonly known as tumbling. "Thessandrus" is the fourth-largest asteroid and largest Jupiter trojan known to be is such a state "(also see List of tumblers)."