Asteroid 2 Pallas was discovered 222 years ago. Now it is at position 2000: 16h 26m 16s Dec: +26°10' which is 47° from the ecliptic. The high orbital inclination makes it a big challenge to send spacecrafts to visit.

Discovered on March 28 1802, by Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas

The Hubble image show that it has a non-spherical shape, even its mean-diameter is more than 500 km.

Olbers also discovered the asteroid Vesta and comet 13P/Olbers which has been nice lately.
Latest images of comet 13P/Olbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13P/Olbers

Pallas Sun distance (au): 2,95

Time: 22:53UT 2024-05-20 Exp.4 x 15sec
Tel: 0.254m f/7.3 ST-10XME CCD 2x2bin 1.5"/pix
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.