Edges 20 Vertex configuration 2(3.5)
2+4(3.5)
2(3) | Vertices 10 Symmetry group C2v | |
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Type Johnson
J61 - J62 - J63 Faces 3x2+4 triangles
2 pentagons |
In geometry, the metabidiminished icosahedron is one of the Johnson solids (J62).
A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.
The name refers to one way of constructing it, by removing two pentagonal pyramids from a regular icosahedron, replacing two sets of five triangular faces of the icosahedron with two adjacent pentagonal faces. If two pentagonal pyramids are removed to form nonadjacent pentagonal faces, the result is instead the pentagonal antiprism.
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