5995 Saint-Aignan
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The asteroidAsteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
5995 Saint-Aignan is a main belt
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered by Ted Bowell and named for Charles de Saint-Aignan.
Orbital diagram
This orbital diagram is courtesy of the JPL Small-Body Database Browser
See also
- Asteroid beltAsteroid beltThe asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
Category:Asteroid groups and families
Category:Asteroids
- List of asteroids
- List of asteroids named after important people
- List of asteroids named after places
- List of notable asteroids
- Meanings of asteroid namesMeanings of asteroid namesThis is a list of named minor planets , with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named for.-See also:*List of minor planets*List of minor planets named after people...
- Minor planetMinor planetAn asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
- Minor Planet CenterMinor Planet CenterThe Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , which is part of the Center for Astrophysics along with the Harvard College Observatory ....
- Pronunciation of asteroid namesPronunciation of asteroid namesThis page alphabetically lists the first thousand asteroids to be numbered, which are mostly in the main belt.See also Pronunciation of Trojan asteroids.-A:...