1 day / second
0.5 AU
After a failed first attempt to enter Venus orbit in 2010, Akatsuki successfully established orbit around Venus in 2015 and continues to study the planet's atmosphere and weather patterns using its suite of cameras and instruments.
A large main-belt asteroid roughly 434 kilometers wide that is nearly spherical in shape, making it one of the four largest objects in the asteroid belt after Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas.
A distant dwarf planet with an extremely elongated 11,400-year orbit that takes it between 76 and 937 AU from the Sun, making it one of the most remote known objects in the Solar System.
2024-2025
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