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.
2 Pallas
Both Vesta and Pallas have assumed the title of second-largest asteroid from time to time. At in diameter, Pallas is slightly smaller than Vesta (). The mass of Pallas is only 84% that of Vesta, 22% that of Ceres and about 0.3% that of the Moon.