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.