Compound of five tetrahedra

It can be constructed by arranging five tetrahedra in rotational icosahedral symmetry (I), as colored in the upper right model.

Both forms together create the reflection symmetric compound of ten tetrahedra.

The symmetry group of the compound is the (rotational) icosahedral group I of order 60, while the stabilizer of a single chosen tetrahedron is the (rotational) tetrahedral group T of order 12, and the orbit space I/T (of order 60/12 = 5) is naturally identified with the 5 tetrahedra – the coset gT corresponds to which tetrahedron g sends the chosen tetrahedron to.

In the 5-cell the tetrahedra are bonded face-to-face such that each triangular face is shared by two tetrahedral cells.

The compound of five tetrahedra occurs embedded in 4-dimensional space, inscribed in the 120 dodecahedral cells of the 120-cell.