| 25143 Itokawa | |
|---|---|
 Greyscale (black & white) image of 25143 Itokawa as observed by JAXA's Hayabusa | |
| Discovered by | LINEAR |
| Date of Discovery | 26 September 1998 |
25143 Itokawa is a stony sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group and potentially hazardous asteroid, that measures approximately 350 meters in diameter. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample return mission, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa, and the smallest asteroid photographed and visited by a spacecraft.