Antipodality in convex cones and distance to unpointedness

We provide a complete answer to the problem which consists in finding an unpointed convex cone lying at minimal bounded Pompeiu–Hausdorff distance from a pointed one. We give also a simple and useful characterization of the radius of pointedness of a convex cone. A corresponding characterization for the radius of solidity of a convex cone is then derived by using a duality argument.