Euterpe is one of the brightest asteroids in the night sky.

A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but luckily does not collide with the projectile.

Orbital elements for bright asteroids from the Minor Planet Center.

"I chose a bright asteroid to hide next to."

The Autonav system, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, takes images of known bright asteroids.

Vesta is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth.

Its size and unusually bright surface make Vesta the brightest asteroid, and it is occasionally visible to the naked eye from dark skies (without light pollution).

It is the seventh brightest asteroid with a mean opposition magnitude of +8.7.

Its size and unusually bright surface makes Vesta the brightest asteroid, and the only one ever visible to the naked eye from Earth.

Its brightness at these rare near-perihelion oppositions makes Bamberga the brightest C-type asteroid, about one magnitude brighter than 10 Hygiea's maximum brightness of around +9.1.