Great dodecahedron composed by twelve pentagonal faces with five pentagons meeting at each vertex, intersecting each other making a pentagrammic path.

Polyhedron with twelve pentagonal faces with five pentagons meeting at each vertex, intersecting each other making a pentagrammic path. It has thirty edges and twelve vertices. It is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, one of the four non-convex regular polyhedra.

The surface area of a great dodecahedron with edge length a is given by the formula:

\text{Surface area}=15a^2 \sqrt{5-2\sqrt{5}}

The volume of a great dodecahedron with edge length a is given by the formula:

\text{Volume}=\frac{5}{4} a^3 \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)

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