The pentakis dodecahedron is the 60-faced dual polyhedron of the truncated icosahedron (Holden 1971,
p. 55). It can be constructed by augmentation
of a unit edge-length dodecahedron by a pyramid
with height 
.
It is illustrated above together with a wireframe version and a net
that can be used for its construction.
It is Wenninger dual 
.
A tetrahedron 10-compound, cube 5-compound, icosahedron, and dodecahedron can be inscribed in the vertices of the pentakis dodecahedron (E. Weisstein, Dec. 25-27, 2009).
The pentakis dodecahedron is he convex hull of the small triambic icosahedron hull.
Taking the dual of a truncated icosahedron with unit edge lengths gives a pentakis dodecahedron with edge lengths
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(1)
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(2)
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Normalizing so that 
, the surface area and
volume are
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(3)
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(4)
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