Nick Rowell
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Side projects:
Asteroid viewer 3D
Small body viewer
Hipparcos viewer
Lunar South Pole
Asteroid 3D printing


Contact info:
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Blackford Hill
Edinburgh
EH9 3HJ

Asteroid and Moon models for 3D printers

The following links provide shape models for a variety of small bodies in the solar system. They can be viewed interactively on the Solar system small body viewer page. The models are provided in STL format and are suitable for 3D printing.

Dione
Eros
Itokawa
Mimas
Phobos
Phoebe
Tethys

Source

The models were obtained from the NASA PDS Small Bodies Node at http://pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/, and were converted manually to STL format. The originals are in Implicitly Connected Quadrilateral format and correspond to the q=256 resolution level with 396294 vertices.