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{{Lists of Solar System objects}}
This is a list of Solar System objects by size, arranged in descending order of mean volumetric radiusIn classical geometry, a radius of a circle or sphere is any line segment from its center to its perimeter. By extension, the radius of a circle or sphere is the length of any such segment, which is half the diameter....
. The list can also be sorted according to an object's mass and, for the largest objects, volume and surface gravity. This list contains the SunThe Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass....
, the planetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
s, all known dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to...
s and dwarf planet candidates, the largest asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
s (including the largest for the various sub-populations, such as centaurs and TrojansIn astronomy, the adjective 'trojan' refers to a minor planet or natural satellite that shares an orbit with a larger planet or moon, but does not collide with it because it orbits around one of the two Lagrangian points of stability, and , which lie 60° ahead of and behind the larger body.The...
), all named natural satelliteA natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called the primary. Technically, the term natural satellite could refer to a planet orbiting a star, or a dwarf galaxy orbiting a major galaxy, but it is normally synonymous with moon and used to identify...
s, and a number of other objects of historical or scientific interest, such as cometA comet is a Small Solar System Body that has coma and is bigger than a meteoroid. When close enough to the Sun, a comet exhibits a visible coma , and sometimes a tail, both because of the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus...
s and near-Earth objectA near-Earth object is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into close proximity with the Earth.All NEOs have a perihelion distance < 1.3 AU. They include a few thousand near-Earth asteroids , near-Earth comets, a number of solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to be...
s.
The ordering is different depending on whether one chooses radius or mass, because some objects are denser than others. For instance UranusUranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus the father of Kronos and grandfather of Zeus...
is bigger than NeptuneNeptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and...
but less massive, and although GanymedeGanymede is a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, it is the seventh moon and third Galilean moon from Jupiter. Ganymede participates in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively. It is larger in diameter...
and TitanTitan , or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found....
are larger than MercuryFor the liquid metallic element, see Mercury .Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three...
, they have less than half its mass. Some objects in the lower tables, despite their small radii, are more massive than objects in the upper tables because they have a higher density.
Several new trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been discovered of significant size. While their radius remains provisional due to the recency of discovery, and is often expressed as a range, the approximate locations in this list are shown.
All Solar System objects more massive than 10 21 kilogramThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
s (one yottagram [Yg]) are known or expected to be approximately spherical. Astronomical bodies relax into rounded shapes ( ellipsoidAn ellipsoid is a type of quadric surface that is a higher dimensional analogue of an ellipse. The equation of a standard axis-aligned ellipsoid body in an xyz-Cartesian coordinate system is...
s), achieving hydrostatic equilibriumHydrostatic equilibrium occurs when compression due to gravity is balanced by a pressure gradient wihch creates a pressure gradient force in the opposite direction...
, when the gravity of their mass is sufficient to overcome the structural strength of their material. However, objects made of ice become regular more easily than those made of rock, and many icy objects are spheroidal at far lower masses. The cutoff boundary for regularity appears to roughly coincide with the 200 km radius.
The larger objects in the mass range between 10 18 kgThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
to 10 21 kg (1 to 1000 Zettagrams (Zg)) such as TethysTethys is a moon of Saturn that was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684.-Name:Tethys is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology...
, Ceres, and MimasMimas is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology, and is also designated Saturn I....
, have relaxed to an equilibrium oblate spheroid due to their gravity, while the less massive rubble pileIn astronomy, rubble pile is the informal name for an asteroid that is not a monolith, consisting instead of numerous pieces of rock that have coalesced under the influence of gravity...
s (e. g. AmaltheaAmalthea is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet. It was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology...
and JanusJanus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as Saturn X . It is named after the mythological Janus.-Discovery and orbit:Janus occupies essentially the same orbit as the moon Epimetheus...
) are roughly rounded, but not spherical, dubbed "irregular".
Spheroidal bodies typically have some polar flattening due to the centrifugal forceIn classical mechanics, centrifugal force is an outward force associated with curved motion, that is, rotation about some center...
from their rotation, but a characteristic feature of the "irregular"-shaped bodies is that there is a significant difference in the length of their two equatorial diameters.
There appears to be difficulty in figuring out the diameter (within a factor of about 2) for typical objects beyond Saturn. (See 2060 Chiron as an example.) For TNOs there is some confidence in the diameters, but for non-binary TNOs there is no real confidence in the "unreferenced wiki-assumed" masses/densities. Many TNOs are just assumed to have a density of 2.0 g/cm³, though it is just as likely that they have a comet like density of only 0.5 g/cm³. Thus most provisional TNOs are not given a M Earth value to prevent from cluttering the list with too many assumptions that could be off by an order of magnitudeAn order of magnitude is the class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio to the class preceding it. In its most common usage, the amount being scaled is 10 and the scale is the exponent being applied to this amount...
. For example if a TNO is poorly assumed to have a mass of 3.59{{e|20}} kgThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
based on a radius of 350 km with a density of 2 g/cm³ and is later discovered to only have a radius of 175 km with a density of 1 g/cm³, the mass estimate would be only 2.24{{e|19}} kgThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
.
The sizes and masses of many of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are fairly well known due to numerous observations and interactions of the Galileo and Cassini orbiters. But many of the moons with a radius less than ~100 km, such as Jupiter's HimaliaHimalia is the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, and the sixth largest overall. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory on 1904 December 3 and is named after the nymph Himalia who bore three sons of Zeus .-Discovery:Himalia, the largest irregular satellite of...
, still have unknown masses with assumed densities. Again, as we get further from the Sun than Saturn, things get less clear. There has not yet been an orbiter around Uranus or Neptune for long-term study of the moons. For the small outer irregular moons of Uranus, such as SycoraxSycorax is the largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.Sycorax was discovered on 1997-09-06 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J...
, which were not discovered by the Voyager 2The Voyager 2 spacecraft is an unmanned interplanetary space probe launched on August 20, 1977. Identical in form to its sister Voyager program craft Voyager 1, Voyager 2 followed a slower trajectory that allowed it to be kept in the ecliptic so that it could be sent to Uranus and Neptune by means...
flyby, even different NASA web pages, such as the National Space Science Data CenterThe National Space Science Data Center is a department in NASA's Heliophysics Division. It was created to archive NASA space science mission data. The NSSDC is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The NSSDC provides free access to NASA data for the public and...
and JPL Solar System Dynamics, have somewhat contradictory size and albedo estimates depending on which research paper is being cited.
Data for those objects smaller than Miranda are less reliable due to uncertainties in the figures for mass and radius, and irregularities in the shape and density of the objects listed.
Objects above ~200 km in radius
These objects hypothetically lie above the boundary for hydrostatic equilibriumHydrostatic equilibrium occurs when compression due to gravity is balanced by a pressure gradient wihch creates a pressure gradient force in the opposite direction...
. As such, all manually calculated values assume sphericity.
| Body |
Image |
Mean radius (kmThe kilometre , symbol km is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second.... ) |
Mean radius (R♁) |
Volume (109 km³) |
Volume (V♁) |
{{e>21}} kg (Yg) |
Mass (M♁) |
Surface gravity (m/s²) |
Surface gravity (♁) |
Type of object |
Shape |
| Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass....
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|
696,000 |
109.25 |
1,412,000,000 |
1,303,781 |
1989100000 |
332837 |
274.0 |
28.02 |
StarA star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth. Other stars are visible in the night sky, when they are not outshone by the Sun...
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regular |
JupiterJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas...
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|
69,911 |
10.97 |
1,431,280 |
1,321 |
1898600 |
317.83 |
24.79 |
2.535 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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regular |
| Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant...
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|
58,232 |
9.14 |
827,130 |
764 |
568460 |
95.159 |
10.445 |
1.06 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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regular |
UranusUranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus the father of Kronos and grandfather of Zeus...
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|
25,362 |
3.98 |
68,340 |
63.1 |
86832 |
14.536 |
8.87 |
0.9 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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regular |
NeptuneNeptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and...
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24,622 |
3.87 |
62,540 |
57.7 |
102430 |
17.147 |
11.15 |
1.140 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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regular |
EarthEarth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the fifth largest of the eight planets in the solar system, and the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density...
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|
6,371.0 |
1 |
1,083.21 |
1 |
5973.6 |
1 |
9.78033Earth's gravity, denoted g, refers to the acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface. In SI units this acceleration is measured in m/s 2...
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1 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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regular |
VenusVenus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6...
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6,051.8 |
0.950 |
928.43 |
0.857 |
4868.5 |
0.815 |
8.872 |
0.9 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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regular |
MarsMars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface....
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3,390.0 |
0.532 |
163.18 |
0.151 |
641.85 |
0.107 |
3.7 |
0.38 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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regular |
GanymedeGanymede is a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, it is the seventh moon and third Galilean moon from Jupiter. Ganymede participates in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively. It is larger in diameter... † Jupiter III |
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2,631.2 |
0.413 |
76.30 |
0.0704 |
148.2 |
0.0248 |
1.428 |
0.15 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
TitanTitan , or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.... † Saturn VI |
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2576 |
0.404 |
71.52 |
0.0660 |
134.5 |
0.0225 |
1.354 |
0.14 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
MercuryFor the liquid metallic element, see Mercury .Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three...
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2,439.7 |
0.383 |
60.83 |
0.0562 |
330.2 |
0.0553 |
3.7 |
0.377 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
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CallistoCallisto is a moon of the planet Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass... † Jupiter IV |
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2,410.3 |
0.378 |
58.65 |
0.0541 |
107.6 |
0.018 |
1.23603 |
0.126 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
IoIo is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometres, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera who became one of the lovers of Zeus.With over 400 active volcanoes, Io is the most... † Jupiter I |
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1,821.5 |
0.286 |
25.32 |
0.0234 |
89.3 |
0.015 |
1.797 |
0.183 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
MoonThe Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is , about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The common centre of mass of the system is located at about —a quarter the Earth's...
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1,737.1 |
0.273 |
21.958 |
0.0203 |
73.5 |
0.0123 |
1.625 |
0.166 |
Satellite of Earth |
regular |
EuropaEuropa is the sixth moon of the planet Jupiter. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei , and named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa, who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete... † Jupiter II |
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1,561 |
0.245 |
15.93 |
0.0147 |
48 |
0.00803 |
1.316 |
0.134 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
TritonTriton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune, discovered on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction to its planet's rotation. At 2700 km in diameter, it is the seventh-largest... † Neptune I |
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1,353.4 |
0.212 |
10.38 |
0.0096 |
21.5 |
0.00359 |
0.782 |
0.0797 |
Satellite of Neptune |
regular |
ErisEris, formal designation 136199 Eris, is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is approximately 2,500 kilometres in diameter and 27% more massive than Pluto.... R 136199 |
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1,300 |
0.19 |
7 |
0.007 |
16.7 |
0.0027 |
16.7|1300}} |
0.0677 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... & Scattered disc object{{mdash}}binary |
regular |
PlutoPluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun... 134340 |
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1,195 |
0.187 |
7.15 |
0.0066 |
13.105 |
0.0022 |
0.61 |
0.062 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... & Kuiper belt object |
regular |
TitaniaTitania is the largest moon of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream... ‡ Uranus III |
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788.9 |
0.124 |
2.06 |
0.0019 |
3.526 |
0.00059 |
0.378 |
0.0385 |
Satellite of Uranus |
regular |
RheaRhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn and the ninth largest moon in the Solar System. It was discovered in 1672 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini.-Name:Rhea is named after the Titan Rhea of Greek mythology, "mother of the gods"... ‡ Saturn V |
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764.4 |
0.12 |
1.87 |
0.0017 |
2.3166 |
0.00039 |
0.26 |
0.027 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
OberonOberon , [In US dictionary transcription, .] also designated Uranus IV, is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus. It is the second largest and second most massive of Uranian moons, and the ninth most massive moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in... † Uranus IV |
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761.4 |
0.12 |
1.85 |
0.0017 |
3.014 |
0.0005 |
0.347 |
0.035 |
Satellite of Uranus |
regular |
Makemake RA 136472 |
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750 |
0.126-0.157 |
1.8 |
0.002 |
4 |
0.00067 |
0.47 |
0.048 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... & Kuiper belt object |
regular |
Sedna90377 Sedna is a trans-Neptunian object and a likely dwarf planet discovered by Michael Brown , Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz on November 14, 2003. It is currently 88 AU from the Sun, about three times as distant as Neptune... *AR 90377 |
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745 |
0.09-0.14 |
1.73 |
0.0016 |
3 |
0.00050 |
0.33–0.50 |
0.0337-0.0511 |
Detached object Detached objects are a dynamical class of bodies in the outer Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune. These objects have orbits whose points of closest approach to the Sun are sufficiently distant from the gravitational influence of Neptune that they are essentially unaffected by Neptune and the...
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unknown |
IapetusIapetus , occasionally Japetus , is the third-largest moon of Saturn, and eleventh in the solar system, discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671... † Saturn VIII |
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736 |
0.113 |
1.55 |
0.0014 |
1.9739 |
0.00033 |
0.223 |
0.0227 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
CharonCharon, discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, is the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto. Following the 2005 discovery of two other natural satellites of Pluto , Charon may also be referred to as Pluto I... † Pluto I |
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604 |
0.095 |
0.87 |
0.0008 |
1.52 |
0.00025 |
0.279 |
0.028 |
Satellite of Pluto |
regular |
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{{Lists of Solar System objects}}
This is a list of Solar System objects by size, arranged in descending order of mean volumetric radiusIn classical geometry, a radius of a circle or sphere is any line segment from its center to its perimeter. By extension, the radius of a circle or sphere is the length of any such segment, which is half the diameter....
. The list can also be sorted according to an object's mass and, for the largest objects, volume and surface gravity. This list contains the SunThe Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass....
, the planetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
s, all known dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to...
s and dwarf planet candidates, the largest asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
s (including the largest for the various sub-populations, such as centaurs and TrojansIn astronomy, the adjective 'trojan' refers to a minor planet or natural satellite that shares an orbit with a larger planet or moon, but does not collide with it because it orbits around one of the two Lagrangian points of stability, and , which lie 60° ahead of and behind the larger body.The...
), all named natural satelliteA natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called the primary. Technically, the term natural satellite could refer to a planet orbiting a star, or a dwarf galaxy orbiting a major galaxy, but it is normally synonymous with moon and used to identify...
s, and a number of other objects of historical or scientific interest, such as cometA comet is a Small Solar System Body that has coma and is bigger than a meteoroid. When close enough to the Sun, a comet exhibits a visible coma , and sometimes a tail, both because of the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus...
s and near-Earth objectA near-Earth object is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into close proximity with the Earth.All NEOs have a perihelion distance < 1.3 AU. They include a few thousand near-Earth asteroids , near-Earth comets, a number of solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to be...
s.
The ordering is different depending on whether one chooses radius or mass, because some objects are denser than others. For instance UranusUranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus the father of Kronos and grandfather of Zeus...
is bigger than NeptuneNeptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and...
but less massive, and although GanymedeGanymede is a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, it is the seventh moon and third Galilean moon from Jupiter. Ganymede participates in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively. It is larger in diameter...
and TitanTitan , or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found....
are larger than MercuryFor the liquid metallic element, see Mercury .Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three...
, they have less than half its mass. Some objects in the lower tables, despite their small radii, are more massive than objects in the upper tables because they have a higher density.
Several new trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been discovered of significant size. While their radius remains provisional due to the recency of discovery, and is often expressed as a range, the approximate locations in this list are shown.
All Solar System objects more massive than 10 21 kilogramThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
s (one yottagram [Yg]) are known or expected to be approximately spherical. Astronomical bodies relax into rounded shapes ( ellipsoidAn ellipsoid is a type of quadric surface that is a higher dimensional analogue of an ellipse. The equation of a standard axis-aligned ellipsoid body in an xyz-Cartesian coordinate system is...
s), achieving hydrostatic equilibriumHydrostatic equilibrium occurs when compression due to gravity is balanced by a pressure gradient wihch creates a pressure gradient force in the opposite direction...
, when the gravity of their mass is sufficient to overcome the structural strength of their material. However, objects made of ice become regular more easily than those made of rock, and many icy objects are spheroidal at far lower masses. The cutoff boundary for regularity appears to roughly coincide with the 200 km radius.
The larger objects in the mass range between 10 18 kgThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
to 10 21 kg (1 to 1000 Zettagrams (Zg)) such as TethysTethys is a moon of Saturn that was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684.-Name:Tethys is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology...
, Ceres, and MimasMimas is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology, and is also designated Saturn I....
, have relaxed to an equilibrium oblate spheroid due to their gravity, while the less massive rubble pileIn astronomy, rubble pile is the informal name for an asteroid that is not a monolith, consisting instead of numerous pieces of rock that have coalesced under the influence of gravity...
s (e. g. AmaltheaAmalthea is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet. It was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology...
and JanusJanus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as Saturn X . It is named after the mythological Janus.-Discovery and orbit:Janus occupies essentially the same orbit as the moon Epimetheus...
) are roughly rounded, but not spherical, dubbed "irregular".
Spheroidal bodies typically have some polar flattening due to the centrifugal forceIn classical mechanics, centrifugal force is an outward force associated with curved motion, that is, rotation about some center...
from their rotation, but a characteristic feature of the "irregular"-shaped bodies is that there is a significant difference in the length of their two equatorial diameters.
There appears to be difficulty in figuring out the diameter (within a factor of about 2) for typical objects beyond Saturn. (See 2060 Chiron as an example.) For TNOs there is some confidence in the diameters, but for non-binary TNOs there is no real confidence in the "unreferenced wiki-assumed" masses/densities. Many TNOs are just assumed to have a density of 2.0 g/cm³, though it is just as likely that they have a comet like density of only 0.5 g/cm³. Thus most provisional TNOs are not given a M Earth value to prevent from cluttering the list with too many assumptions that could be off by an order of magnitudeAn order of magnitude is the class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio to the class preceding it. In its most common usage, the amount being scaled is 10 and the scale is the exponent being applied to this amount...
. For example if a TNO is poorly assumed to have a mass of 3.59{{e|20}} kgThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
based on a radius of 350 km with a density of 2 g/cm³ and is later discovered to only have a radius of 175 km with a density of 1 g/cm³, the mass estimate would be only 2.24{{e|19}} kgThe kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units .[The spelling kilogram is the modern spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures , the U.S...]
.
The sizes and masses of many of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are fairly well known due to numerous observations and interactions of the Galileo and Cassini orbiters. But many of the moons with a radius less than ~100 km, such as Jupiter's HimaliaHimalia is the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, and the sixth largest overall. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory on 1904 December 3 and is named after the nymph Himalia who bore three sons of Zeus .-Discovery:Himalia, the largest irregular satellite of...
, still have unknown masses with assumed densities. Again, as we get further from the Sun than Saturn, things get less clear. There has not yet been an orbiter around Uranus or Neptune for long-term study of the moons. For the small outer irregular moons of Uranus, such as SycoraxSycorax is the largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.Sycorax was discovered on 1997-09-06 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J...
, which were not discovered by the Voyager 2The Voyager 2 spacecraft is an unmanned interplanetary space probe launched on August 20, 1977. Identical in form to its sister Voyager program craft Voyager 1, Voyager 2 followed a slower trajectory that allowed it to be kept in the ecliptic so that it could be sent to Uranus and Neptune by means...
flyby, even different NASA web pages, such as the National Space Science Data CenterThe National Space Science Data Center is a department in NASA's Heliophysics Division. It was created to archive NASA space science mission data. The NSSDC is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The NSSDC provides free access to NASA data for the public and...
and JPL Solar System Dynamics, have somewhat contradictory size and albedo estimates depending on which research paper is being cited.
Data for those objects smaller than Miranda are less reliable due to uncertainties in the figures for mass and radius, and irregularities in the shape and density of the objects listed.
Objects above ~200 km in radius
These objects hypothetically lie above the boundary for hydrostatic equilibriumHydrostatic equilibrium occurs when compression due to gravity is balanced by a pressure gradient wihch creates a pressure gradient force in the opposite direction...
. As such, all manually calculated values assume sphericity.
| Body |
Image |
Mean radius (kmThe kilometre , symbol km is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second.... ) |
Mean radius (R♁) |
Volume (109 km³) |
Volume (V♁) |
{{e>21}} kg (Yg) |
Mass (M♁) |
Surface gravity (m/s²) |
Surface gravity (♁) |
Type of object |
Shape |
| Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass....
|
|
696,000 |
109.25 |
1,412,000,000 |
1,303,781 |
1989100000 |
332837 |
274.0 |
28.02 |
StarA star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth. Other stars are visible in the night sky, when they are not outshone by the Sun...
|
regular |
JupiterJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas...
|
|
69,911 |
10.97 |
1,431,280 |
1,321 |
1898600 |
317.83 |
24.79 |
2.535 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
| Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant...
|
|
58,232 |
9.14 |
827,130 |
764 |
568460 |
95.159 |
10.445 |
1.06 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
UranusUranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus the father of Kronos and grandfather of Zeus...
|
|
25,362 |
3.98 |
68,340 |
63.1 |
86832 |
14.536 |
8.87 |
0.9 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
NeptuneNeptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and...
|
|
24,622 |
3.87 |
62,540 |
57.7 |
102430 |
17.147 |
11.15 |
1.140 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
EarthEarth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the fifth largest of the eight planets in the solar system, and the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density...
|
|
6,371.0 |
1 |
1,083.21 |
1 |
5973.6 |
1 |
9.78033Earth's gravity, denoted g, refers to the acceleration that the Earth imparts to objects on or near its surface. In SI units this acceleration is measured in m/s 2...
|
1 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
VenusVenus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6...
|
|
6,051.8 |
0.950 |
928.43 |
0.857 |
4868.5 |
0.815 |
8.872 |
0.9 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
MarsMars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface....
|
|
3,390.0 |
0.532 |
163.18 |
0.151 |
641.85 |
0.107 |
3.7 |
0.38 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
GanymedeGanymede is a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, it is the seventh moon and third Galilean moon from Jupiter. Ganymede participates in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively. It is larger in diameter... † Jupiter III |
|
2,631.2 |
0.413 |
76.30 |
0.0704 |
148.2 |
0.0248 |
1.428 |
0.15 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
TitanTitan , or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.... † Saturn VI |
|
2576 |
0.404 |
71.52 |
0.0660 |
134.5 |
0.0225 |
1.354 |
0.14 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
MercuryFor the liquid metallic element, see Mercury .Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three...
|
|
2,439.7 |
0.383 |
60.83 |
0.0562 |
330.2 |
0.0553 |
3.7 |
0.377 |
PlanetA planet , is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
|
regular |
CallistoCallisto is a moon of the planet Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass... † Jupiter IV |
|
2,410.3 |
0.378 |
58.65 |
0.0541 |
107.6 |
0.018 |
1.23603 |
0.126 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
IoIo is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometres, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera who became one of the lovers of Zeus.With over 400 active volcanoes, Io is the most... † Jupiter I |
|
1,821.5 |
0.286 |
25.32 |
0.0234 |
89.3 |
0.015 |
1.797 |
0.183 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
MoonThe Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is , about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The common centre of mass of the system is located at about —a quarter the Earth's...
|
|
1,737.1 |
0.273 |
21.958 |
0.0203 |
73.5 |
0.0123 |
1.625 |
0.166 |
Satellite of Earth |
regular |
EuropaEuropa is the sixth moon of the planet Jupiter. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei , and named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa, who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete... † Jupiter II |
|
1,561 |
0.245 |
15.93 |
0.0147 |
48 |
0.00803 |
1.316 |
0.134 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
regular |
TritonTriton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune, discovered on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction to its planet's rotation. At 2700 km in diameter, it is the seventh-largest... † Neptune I |
|
1,353.4 |
0.212 |
10.38 |
0.0096 |
21.5 |
0.00359 |
0.782 |
0.0797 |
Satellite of Neptune |
regular |
ErisEris, formal designation 136199 Eris, is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is approximately 2,500 kilometres in diameter and 27% more massive than Pluto.... R 136199 |
|
1,300 |
0.19 |
7 |
0.007 |
16.7 |
0.0027 |
16.7|1300}} |
0.0677 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... & Scattered disc object{{mdash}}binary |
regular |
PlutoPluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun... 134340 |
|
1,195 |
0.187 |
7.15 |
0.0066 |
13.105 |
0.0022 |
0.61 |
0.062 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... & Kuiper belt object |
regular |
TitaniaTitania is the largest moon of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream... ‡ Uranus III |
|
788.9 |
0.124 |
2.06 |
0.0019 |
3.526 |
0.00059 |
0.378 |
0.0385 |
Satellite of Uranus |
regular |
RheaRhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn and the ninth largest moon in the Solar System. It was discovered in 1672 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini.-Name:Rhea is named after the Titan Rhea of Greek mythology, "mother of the gods"... ‡ Saturn V |
|
764.4 |
0.12 |
1.87 |
0.0017 |
2.3166 |
0.00039 |
0.26 |
0.027 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
OberonOberon , [In US dictionary transcription, .] also designated Uranus IV, is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus. It is the second largest and second most massive of Uranian moons, and the ninth most massive moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in... † Uranus IV |
|
761.4 |
0.12 |
1.85 |
0.0017 |
3.014 |
0.0005 |
0.347 |
0.035 |
Satellite of Uranus |
regular |
Makemake RA 136472 |
|
750 |
0.126-0.157 |
1.8 |
0.002 |
4 |
0.00067 |
0.47 |
0.048 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... & Kuiper belt object |
regular |
Sedna90377 Sedna is a trans-Neptunian object and a likely dwarf planet discovered by Michael Brown , Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz on November 14, 2003. It is currently 88 AU from the Sun, about three times as distant as Neptune... *AR 90377 |
|
745 |
0.09-0.14 |
1.73 |
0.0016 |
3 |
0.00050 |
0.33–0.50 |
0.0337-0.0511 |
Detached object Detached objects are a dynamical class of bodies in the outer Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune. These objects have orbits whose points of closest approach to the Sun are sufficiently distant from the gravitational influence of Neptune that they are essentially unaffected by Neptune and the...
|
unknown |
IapetusIapetus , occasionally Japetus , is the third-largest moon of Saturn, and eleventh in the solar system, discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671... † Saturn VIII |
|
736 |
0.113 |
1.55 |
0.0014 |
1.9739 |
0.00033 |
0.223 |
0.0227 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
CharonCharon, discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, is the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto. Following the 2005 discovery of two other natural satellites of Pluto , Charon may also be referred to as Pluto I... † Pluto I |
|
604 |
0.095 |
0.87 |
0.0008 |
1.52 |
0.00025 |
0.279 |
0.028 |
Satellite of Pluto |
regular |
| 2007 OR10 {{DISPLAYTITLE:2007 OR10}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:2007 OR10}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:2007 OR10}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:2007 OR10}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:2007 OR10}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:2007 OR10}}{{Infobox Planet... * |
|
600 |
0.094 |
0.904 |
0.0008 |
1.81P |
0.0003 |
0.904|600}} |
0.017 |
Scattered disc The scattered disc is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets known as scattered disc objects , a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects...
|
unknown |
UmbrielUmbriel is a moon of Uranus discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell. It was discovered at the same time as Ariel and named after a character in the Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock.... † Uranus II |
|
584.7 |
0.092 |
0.84 |
0.0008 |
1.2 |
0.00020 |
0.234 |
0.024 |
Satellite of Uranus |
regular |
ArielAriel is a moon of Uranus discovered on 24 October 1851 by William Lassell. It was discovered at the same time as Umbriel.-Name:Ariel is named after the leading sylph in Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock... ‡ Uranus I |
|
578.9 |
0.091 |
0.81 |
0.0008 |
1.35 |
0.00022 |
0.269 |
0.027 |
Satellite of Uranus |
regular |
Haumea}} R 136108 |
|
575 |
0.117 |
1.3–1.6 |
0.001 |
4.2 |
0.00069 |
0.44 |
0.045 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... & Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}trinary |
regular (scalene ellipsoid) |
(84522) 2002 TC302{{DISPLAYTITLE 2002 TC 302}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2002 TC 302}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2002 TC 302}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2002 TC 302}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2002 TC 302}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2002 TC 302}}{{Infobox Planet... R |
|
572.7 |
0.09 |
0.786 |
0.0007 |
1.573P |
0.00026 |
1.573|572.7}} |
0.033 |
Kuiper belt object 2:5 resonanceIn astronomy, a resonant trans-Neptunian object is a trans-Neptunian object in mean motion orbital resonance with Neptune. The orbital periods of the resonant objects are in a simple integer relations with the period of Neptune e.g. 1:2, 2:3 etc. †...
|
unknown |
DioneDione is a moon of Saturn discovered by Cassini in 1684. It is named after the titan Dione of Greek mythology. It is also designated Saturn IV.-Name:... † Saturn IV |
|
561.6 |
0.088 |
0.73 |
0.0007 |
1.096 |
0.000183 |
0.232 |
0.0236 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
TethysTethys is a moon of Saturn that was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684.-Name:Tethys is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology... ‡ Saturn III |
|
533 |
0.083 |
0.624 |
0.0006 |
0.6173 |
0.000103 |
0.145 |
0.015 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
| 2005 QU182 ', also written as 2005 QU182, is a Trans-Neptunian object with an absolute magnitude of 3.1. This qualifies it as one of the largest dwarf planet candidates.-Distance:It came to perihelion in 1971, and is currently 48 AU from the Sun.... 9 |
|
525 |
0.082 |
0.606 |
0.00056 |
1.21P |
0.0002 |
1.21|525}} |
0.03 |
Scattered disc object |
unknown |
50000 Quaoar50000 Quaoar is a binary trans-Neptunian object and dwarf planet candidate orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on June 4, 2002 by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown at the California Institute of Technology from images acquired at the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar... * |
|
500 |
0.0785 |
0.523 |
0.0005 |
1.05P |
0.00017 |
1.05|500}} |
0.0287 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}Cubewano{{mdash}}binary |
unknown |
| Ceres‡ |
|
475 |
0.076 |
0.437 |
0.0004 |
0.95 |
0.000159 |
0.27 |
0.0275 |
Dwarf planetA dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. More explicitly, it has to have sufficient mass to... in the asteroid 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...
|
regular |
90482 Orcus90482 Orcus is a Kuiper Belt object and a likely dwarf planet that was discovered by Michael Brown of Caltech, Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory, and David Rabinowitz of Yale University. The discovery images of this object were acquired on February 17, 2004... RA |
|
473 |
0.069-0.08 |
0.4 |
0.0004 |
0.62A |
0.0001 |
0.62|473}} |
0.03 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}plutinoIn astronomy, a plutino is a trans-Neptunian object in 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune. For every 2 orbits that a Plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times. Plutinos are named after Pluto, which follows an orbit trapped in the same resonance, with the Italian diminutive suffix -ino... {{mdash}}binary |
unknown |
| (202421) 2005 UQ513 ', also written as 2005 UQ513, is a cubewano with an absolute magnitude of 3.4. This qualifies it as one of the largest dwarf planet candidates.-Classification:2005 UQ513 has a perihelion of 37 AU... 9 |
|
462 |
0.074 |
0.443 |
0.0004 |
0.886P |
0.0001 |
0.886|462}} |
0.0284 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}Cubewano |
unknown |
| 2007 UK126 ', also written as 2007 UK126, is a scattered disc object with an absolute magnitude of 3.6. This qualifies it as a dwarf planet candidate. Its eccentricity of 0.48 suggests that it was gravitationally scattered onto its eccentric orbit... 9 |
|
439 |
0.069 |
0.354 |
0.0003 |
0.708P |
0.0001 |
0.708|439}} |
0.025 |
Scattered disc object |
unknown |
| (174567) 2003 MW12 ' is a Trans-Neptunian object with an absolute magnitude of 3.6. This qualifies it as a dwarf planet candidate. It was discovered on June 21, 2003 by Jeffrey A... 9 |
|
419 |
0.0658 |
0.308 |
0.0003 |
0.616P |
0.0001 |
0.616|419}} |
0.024 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| 2006 QH181 ', also written as 2006 QH181, is a trans-Neptunian object. It is part of the scattered disc. It may be a detached object since a perihelion of 37.6 AU may place it outside of the direct influence of Neptune, or it could have a 5:1 resonance with Neptune... 9 |
|
382 |
0.06 |
0.233 |
0.000215 |
0.467P |
0.00008 |
0.467|382}} |
0.022 |
Scattered disc object |
unknown |
| 2004 XR190 ' is a dwarf planet candidate located in the scattered disc. Astronomers led by Lynne Jones of the University of British Columbia made the discovery as part of the using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope... * |
|
375 |
0.059 |
0.221 |
0.0002 |
0.4416P |
0.00007 |
0.4416|375}} |
0.0215 |
Scattered disc object |
unknown |
19521 Chaos19521 Chaos is a cubewano, a Kuiper belt object not in resonance with any planet. Chaos was discovered in 1998 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey, with Kitt Peak's 4 m telescope. It is large at about 560 km, and bright at H=4.755. It is named after the primeval state of existence in Greek... * |
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372.5 |
0.0585 |
0.216 |
0.0002 |
0.4328P |
0.00007 |
0.4328|372.5}} |
0.021 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}cubewano In astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
|
unknown |
(55565) 2002 AW197' is a trans-Neptunian object . It was discovered in 2002 by Michael E. Brown et al. It is classified as a cubewano.Measurements with the Spitzer Space Telescope have confirmed 2002 AW 197 as a reliable dwarf planet candidate... R |
|
367 |
0.0576 |
0.207 |
0.00019 |
0.414P |
0.000069 |
0.414|367}} |
0.0211 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| (145452) 2005 RN43 ', also written as 2005 RN43, is a dwarf planet candidate orbiting in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered by Andrew C. Becker, Andrew W. Puckett, and Jeremy M. Kubica on September 10, 2005 at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico.... 9 |
|
365 |
0.0573 |
0.2036 |
0.00019 |
0.407P |
0.000068 |
0.407|365}} |
0.02096 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| 2002 MS4 ' is a Trans-Neptunian object . It was discovered in 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown. It is classified as a cubewano by the Minor Planet Center.The Spitzer Space Telescope has estimated it to have a diameter of 726 ± 123 km... R |
|
363 |
0.057 |
0.203 |
0.00018 |
0.4005P |
0.000067 |
0.4005|363}} |
0.02086 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| (84922) 2003 VS2 ' is a trans-Neptunian object discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program on November 14, 2003. It is in a 2:3 orbital Resonance with Neptune, placing its categorization as a plutino.-External links:* from JPL / *... R |
|
363 |
0.057 |
0.203 |
0.00018 |
0.4005P |
0.000067 |
0.4005|363}} |
0.02086 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}plutinoIn astronomy, a plutino is a trans-Neptunian object in 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune. For every 2 orbits that a Plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times. Plutinos are named after Pluto, which follows an orbit trapped in the same resonance, with the Italian diminutive suffix -ino...
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unknown |
| (24835) 1995 SM55 ', also written 1995 SM55, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt.-Origin:Based on their common pattern of IR water-ice absorptions and neutral visible spectrum... * |
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352 |
0.055 |
0.183 |
0.00017 |
0.3652P |
0.000061 |
0.3652|352}} |
0.02014 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| (145453) 2005 RR43 ', also written as 2005 RR43, is a trans-Neptunian object . It was discovered by Andrew C. Becker, Andrew W. Puckett, and Jeremy Martin Kubica on September 9, 2005 at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico.-Origin:... 9 |
|
348 |
0.0546 |
0.1765 |
0.00016 |
0.353P |
0.000059 |
0.353|348}} |
0.0199 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| (208996) 2003 AZ84R |
|
343 |
0.0538 |
0.169 |
0.000156 |
0.338P |
5.66 E-5 |
0.338|343}} |
0.0196 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}plutinoIn astronomy, a plutino is a trans-Neptunian object in 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune. For every 2 orbits that a Plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times. Plutinos are named after Pluto, which follows an orbit trapped in the same resonance, with the Italian diminutive suffix -ino... {{mdash}}binary |
unknown |
| (55637) 2002 UX25 ' is a dwarf planet candidate discovered on October 30, 2002 by the Spacewatch program. It is mid-sized cubewano .-Brightness and Color:... R |
|
340.6 |
0.0535 |
0.166 |
0.000153 |
0.331P |
0.0000554 |
0.331|340.6}} |
0.01952 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}binary |
unknown |
| (90568) 2004 GV9 ' is a trans-Neptunian object. It was discovered in 2004 by NEAT. It is currently listed as a cubewano by the Minor Planet Center.The Spitzer Space Telescope has estimated it to have a diameter of 677±70 km... R |
|
338.5 |
0.0531 |
0.162 |
0.00015 |
0.325P |
0.0000534 |
0.325|338.5}} |
0.0194 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| (120178) 2003 OP32 ', also written as 2003 OP32,is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on July 26, 2003 by Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L... 9 |
|
333 |
0.052 |
0.155 |
0.000143 |
0.309P |
0.0000517 |
0.309|333}} |
0.019 |
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
28978 Ixion28978 Ixion is a Kuiper belt object discovered on May 22, 2001. Ixion is a plutino and a potential dwarf planet; its estimated diameter of 800 km makes it the third largest plutino... RA |
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|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (42301) 2001 UR163{{DISPLAYTITLE 2001 UR163}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2001 UR163}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2001 UR163}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2001 UR163}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2001 UR163}}{{DISPLAYTITLE 2001 UR163}}... 9
|bgcolor=black|
|318
|0.05
|0.134
|0.00012
|0.269 P
|0.000045
|{{Gr|0.269|318}}
|0.018
|Scattered disc object
|unknown
|-
| 20000 Varuna20000 Varuna is a large classical Kuiper Belt object and a potential dwarf planet. It previously had the provisional designation ' and has been precovered in plates dating back to 1953.- Name :...
* A
|bgcolor=black|
|{{Listrow|310|0.37|3|}}
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (55636) 2002 TX300' is a dwarf planet candidate in the outer Solar System. It is a large Haumea family member, discovered in October 15, 2002 by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program....
*
|bgcolor=black|
|{{Listrow|310|0.37|3|}}
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| 2003 UZ413', also written as 2003 UZ413, is a trans-Neptunian object with an absolute magnitude of 4.3. A 2:3 orbital resonance with Neptune makes it a plutino. It is large enough to be a plutoid candidate.... 9
|bgcolor=black|
|303
|0.048
|0.116
|0.00012
|0.33 P
|0.000055
|{{Gr|0.33|303}}
|0.0246
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| 2003 QW90', also written as 2003 QW90, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on August 23, 2003 by Marc W. Buie.Diameter by 2008 was listed as 440 km.... 9
|bgcolor=black|
|290
|0.0455
|0.102
|0.00009
|0.2 P
|0.000034
|{{Gr|0.2|290}}
|0.016
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (145451) 2005 RM43', also written as 2005 RM43, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the scattered disc region beyond the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on September 9, 2005 by Andrew C. Becker, Andrew W. Puckett, and Jeremy Martin Kubica at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico.It has been... 9
|bgcolor=black|
|290
|0.0455
|0.102
|0.00009
|0.2 P
|0.000034
|{{Gr|0.2|290}}
|0.016
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (120347) 2004 SB60 2004 SB60, also written as 2004 SB60, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on September 22, 2004 by Michael E. Brown, Henry G. Roe, and Kristina M. Barkume at the Palomar Observatory... 9
|bgcolor=black|
|290
|0.0455
|0.102
|0.00009
|0.2 P
|0.000034
|{{Gr|0.2|290}}
|0.016
|Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}binary
|unknown
|-
| (15874) 1996 TL66' is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the scattered disc. It is not a detached object since it's perihelion is under the control of Neptune.-Discovered:Discovered in 1996 by David C... RA
|bgcolor=black|
|{{Listrow|288|0.2|3}}
|Scattered disc object
|unknown
|-
| (119951) 2002 KX14', also written as 2002 KX14, is a trans-Neptunian object residing within the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on May 17, 2002 by Michael E. Brown and Chad Trujillo....
*
|bgcolor=black|
|280
|0.044
|0.092
|0.000085
|0.18 P
|0.00003
|{{Gr|0.18|280}}
|0.0157
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
|{{mpl|2004 NT|33}}
|bgcolor=black|
|277
|0.043
|0.089
|0.000082
|0.178 P
|0.000029
|{{Gr|0.178|277}}
|0.0158
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (120348) 2004 TY364', also written as 2004 TY364, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered by Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz on October 3, 2004 at the Palomar Observatory. It is a dwarf planet and plutoid candidate slightly closer to the Sun than Pluto...
*
|bgcolor=black|
|277
|0.043
|0.089
|0.000082
|0.178 P
|0.000029
|{{Gr|0.178|277}}
|0.0158
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (19308) 1996 TO66' is a trans-Neptunian object. It was discovered in 1996 by Chadwick A. Trujillo, David C. Jewitt and Jane X...
*
|bgcolor=black|
|270
|0.042
|0.082
|0.000076
|0.165 P
|0.000028
|{{Gr|0.165|270}}
|0.0155
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| 38628 Huya38628 Huya is a trans-Neptunian object . It was discovered in March 2000 by Ignacio Ferrin and announced on 24 October 2000. It is classified as a plutino with a 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune... R
|bgcolor=black|
|266
|0.04175
|0.0788
|0.000073
|0.158 P
|0.00026
|{{Gr|0.158|266}}
|0.015
|Kuiper belt object{{mdash}} plutinoIn astronomy, a plutino is a trans-Neptunian object in 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune. For every 2 orbits that a Plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times. Plutinos are named after Pluto, which follows an orbit trapped in the same resonance, with the Italian diminutive suffix -ino...
|unknown
|-
| 2 Pallas2 Pallas is one of the largest asteroids and is located in the main asteroid belt. It was the second asteroid to be discovered, by astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers on March 28, 1802... $
|bgcolor=black|
|266
|0.0042
|0.078
|0.00007
|0.211
|0.0000353
|{{Gr|0.211|266}}
|0.02
| asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
|irregular
|-
| 4 Vesta4 Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of about 530 km and an estimated mass of 9% of the mass of the entire asteroid belt... $
|bgcolor=black|
|264.6
|0.042
|0.078
|0.00007
|0.262
|0.0000438
|{{Gr|0.262|264.6}}
|0.0256
| asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
|regular (uncertain)
|-
| EnceladusEnceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. Until the two Voyager spacecraft passed near it in the early 1980s, very little was known about this small moon besides the identification of water ice on its surface... ‡ Saturn II
|bgcolor=black|
|252.1
|0.039
|0.067
|0.00006
|0.108
|0.0000181
|0.111
|0.0113
|Satellite of Saturn
|regular
|-
| 2001 QF298', also written as 2001 QF298, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on August 19, 2001 by Marc W. Buie. It is in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune similar to Pluto....
*
|bgcolor=black|
|252
|0.04
|0.067
|0.00006
|0.134 P
|0.000022
|{{Gr| 0.134 |252}}
| 0.014
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (82075) 2000 YW134', provisionally known as 2000 YW95, is a binary trans-Neptunian object .Assuming a generic TNO albedo of 0.09, the primary is about 431 km in diameter and the secondary 237 km in diameter.-Classifications:...
*
|bgcolor=black|
|250
| 0.039
| 0.065
|0.00006
|0.13 P
|0.000022
|{{Gr|0.13|250}}
|0.014
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (145480) 2005 TB190', provisionally known as 2005 TB190, is a Trans-Neptunian object with an absolute magnitude of 4.7. This qualifies it as a dwarf planet candidate.It will come to perihelion in 2016....
|bgcolor=black|
|250
| 0.039
| 0.065
|0.00006
|0.13 P
|0.000022
|{{Gr|0.13|250}}
|0.014
|Detached object
|unknown
|-
| (145480) 2005 TB190', provisionally known as 2005 TB190, is a Trans-Neptunian object with an absolute magnitude of 4.7. This qualifies it as a dwarf planet candidate.It will come to perihelion in 2016....
|bgcolor=black|
|250
| 0.039
| 0.065
|0.00006
|0.13 P
|0.000022
|{{Gr|0.13|250}}
|0.014
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
|(144897) 2004 UX 10
|bgcolor=black|
|250
| 0.039
| 0.065
|0.00006
|0.13 P
|0.000022
|{{Gr|0.13|250}}
|0.014
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| MirandaMiranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus' five major moons.It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 1948-02-16 at McDonald Observatory. It was named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest by Kuiper in his report of the discovery. The adjectival form of the name is Mirandan... ‡ Uranus V
|bgcolor=black|
|235.8
|0.037
|0.055
|0.00005
|0.0659
|0.0000110
|0.07910375
|0.00806
|Satellite of Uranus
|regular
|-
| (26375) 1999 DE9' is an object of the solar system located beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was discovered in 1999 by Chad Trujillo and Jane X. Luu....
|bgcolor=black|
|230.5
|0.036
|0.051
|0.000047
|0.1026 P
|0.000017
|{{Gr|0.1026|230.5}}
|0.013
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
|2002 CY 248
|bgcolor=black|
|230
|0.036
|0.051
|0.00005
|0.102 P
|0.000017
|{{Gr|0.102|230}}
|0.013
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
|2002 XV 93
|bgcolor=black|
|230
|0.036
|0.051
|0.00005
|0.102 P
|0.000017
|{{Gr|0.102|230}}
|0.013
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| 2003 QX113', also written as 2003 QX113, is a Detached object that was discovered when it was near aphelion. With an absolute magnitude of 4.9, it may qualify as a small dwarf planet candidate....
|bgcolor=black|
|230
|0.036
|0.051
|0.00005
|0.102 P
|0.000017
|{{Gr|0.102|230}}
|0.013
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (35671) 1998 SN165', also written as 1998 SN165, is a trans-Neptunian object. It was discovered on September 23, 1998 by A. Gleason at Steward Observatory....
*
|bgcolor=black|
|229
|0.036
|0.05
|0.000046
|0.1 P
|0.000017
|{{Gr|0.1|229}}
|0.013
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
|2004 PR 107
|bgcolor=black|
|220
|0.0345
|0.0446
|0.00004
|0.089 P
|0.000014
|{{Gr|0.089|220}}
|0.0126
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| 2003 QW90', also written as 2003 QW90, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on August 23, 2003 by Marc W. Buie.Diameter by 2008 was listed as 440 km....
|bgcolor=black|
|220
|0.0345
|0.0446
|0.00004
|0.089 P
|0.000014
|{{Gr|0.089|220}}
|0.0126
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
|1999 CD 158
|bgcolor=black|
|220
|0.0345
|0.0446
|0.00004
|0.089 P
|0.000014
|{{Gr|0.089|220}}
|0.0126
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| (120132) 2003 FY128', also written as 2003 FY128, is a trans-Neptunian object.-Detached:It is classified as a detached object by the Deep Ecliptic Survey since its orbit appears to be beyond the current control of Neptune...
*
|bgcolor=black|
|220
|0.0345
|0.0446
|0.00004
|0.089 P
|0.000014
|{{Gr|0.089|220}}
|0.0126
|Scattered disc object
|unknown
|-
| ProteusProteus , also known as Neptune VIII, is the second largest Neptunian moon, and Neptune's largest inner satellite. It is the largest known non-spherical moon in the solar system... ‡A Neptune VIII
|bgcolor=black|
|210
|0.033
|0.038
|0.000035
|0.050
|0.00000844
|0.0666
|0.00678
|Satellite of Neptune
|irregular
|-
| (47171) 1999 TC36' is a trans-Neptunian object . It was discovered in 1999 by Eric P. Rubenstein and Louis-Gregory Strolger during an observing run at Kitt Peak National Observatory . Dr. Rubenstein was searching images taken by Dr. Strolger as part of the Low-Z Supernova Search program...
*
|bgcolor=black|
|207.3
|0.0325
|0.0373
|0.000034
|0.075 P
|0.0000125
|{{Gr|0.075|207.3}}
|0.012
|Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}binary
|unknown
|-
| 10 Hygiea10 Hygiea is an asteroid located in the main asteroid belt. With somewhat oblong diameters of 350–500 km, and a mass estimated to be 2.9% of the total mass of the belt, it is the fourth largest object in the region by volume and mass... $
|bgcolor=black|
|{{Listrow|203.6|0.0885|3|}}
| asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
|irregular
|-
| (119979) 2002 WC19', also written as 2002 WC19, is a Trans-Neptunian object orbiting beyond Pluto in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on November 16, 2002 at the Palomar Observatory....
|bgcolor=black|
|200.5
|0.0315
|0.034
|0.00003
|0.0675 P
|0.000011
|{{Gr|0.0675|200.3}}
|0.0115
|Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}binary
|unknown
|-
| (26181) 1996 GQ21', also written as 1996 GQ21, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the scattered disc region of the Solar System. It was discovered on April 12, 1996 by Nichole M. Danzl.-References:...
*
|bgcolor=black|
|200
|0.031
|0.0335
|0.000011
|0.067 P
|0.000011
|{{Gr|0.067|200}}
|0.011
|Scattered disc object
|unknown
|-
|2006 HH 123
|bgcolor=black|
|200
|0.031
|0.0335
|0.000011
|0.067 P
|0.000011
|{{Gr|0.067|200}}
|0.011
|Kuiper belt object
|unknown
|-
| MimasMimas is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology, and is also designated Saturn I.... ‡ Saturn I
|bgcolor=black|
|198.3
|0.031
|0.033
|0.00003
|0.03749
|0.0000063
|0.06363
|0.00648
|Satellite of Saturn
|regular
|}
Objects between 200 and 100 km in radius
The largest of these objects just might lie above the boundary for hydrostatic equilibrium, but most are irregular. Most of the Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space....
s listed with a radius smaller than 200 km have " assumed sizes based on a generic albedo of 0.09" since they are too far away to directly measure their sizes. Volume and surface gravity are difficult to calculate for irregular objects. Values relative to Earth are too inexact to be useful beyond this point. Mass switches from 10 21 kg to 10 18 kg (Zg), with Mimas double listed as example of unit shift. Main belt asteroids have orbital elements constrained by (2.0 AU < a < 3.2 AU; q > 1.666 AU) according to JPL Solar System Dynamics (JPLSSD).
| Body |
Image |
Mean radius (kmThe kilometre , symbol km is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second.... ) |
{{e>18}} kg (Zg) |
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Shape |
MimasMimas is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology, and is also designated Saturn I.... ‡ Saturn I |
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198.3 |
37.49 |
Satellite of Saturn |
regular |
| 2004 XA|192}} |
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191.5 |
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Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| 2003 UZ117 |
|
190 |
|
Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
(48639) 1995 TL8' is a trans-Neptunian object of the detached subclass, and possesses a relatively large satellite.... * |
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175 |
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Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}binary |
unknown |
NereidNereid , also known as Neptune II, is a moon of Neptune.Nereid was discovered on May 1, 1949 by Gerard P. Kuiper, who proposed the name in the report of his discovery. It is named after the Nereids, sea-nymphs of Greek mythology.Nereid was the outermost known moon of Neptune from its discovery... A Neptune II |
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170 |
31 |
Satellite of Neptune |
irregular |
| 148780 Altjira 9 |
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170 |
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}cubewanoIn astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
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| (47932) GN171 |
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160.5 |
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}plutinoIn astronomy, a plutino is a trans-Neptunian object in 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune. For every 2 orbits that a Plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times. Plutinos are named after Pluto, which follows an orbit trapped in the same resonance, with the Italian diminutive suffix -ino...
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unknown |
| 704 Interamnia 704 Interamnia is a very large asteroid, with an estimated diameter of 350 kilometres. Its mean distance from the Sun is 3.067 . It was discovered on October 2, 1910 by Vincenzo Cerulli, and named after the Latin name for Teramo, Italy, where Cerulli worked... M |
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158.31 |
37 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}F-type F-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group.-Characteristics:Generally similar to the B-type asteroids, but...
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unknown |
Hi'iakaHiiaka is the larger, outer moon of the dwarf planet Haumea.-Discovery and naming:Hiiaka was the first satellite discovered around Haumea. It is named after one of the daughters of Haumea, Hiiaka, the patron goddess of the Big Island of Hawaii, though at first it had gone by the nickname "Rudolph"... Haumea I |
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155 |
20 |
Satellite of Haumea The outer Solar System dwarf planet Haumea has two known moons, Hiiaka and Namaka, named after Hawaiian goddesses. These small moons were discovered in 2005, from observations of Haumea made at the large telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii....
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irregular |
| 1995 SN55 ', also written as 1995 SN55, is a lost centaur with a perihelion greater than Jupiter and a semi-major axis that may be less than Neptune. This object could be the largest known centaur.-Size:... * (lost) |
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155 |
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| (79360) 1997 CS29 , also written as 1997 CS29, is a double cubewano. It was discovered on February 3, 1997 by Jane X. Luu, David C. Jewitt, Chad Trujillo, and Jun Chen at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii... 9 |
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152.5 |
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Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}binary |
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| (79978) 1999 CC158 ', also written as 1999 CC158, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the scattered disc region of the Solar System. It was discovered on February 15, 1999 at the Mauna Kea Observatory, HawaiiIt has a 12:5 resonance with Neptune.... 9 |
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152 |
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Scattered-disc object |
unknown |
| (40314) 1999 KR16 ', also written as 1999 KR16, is a trans-Neptunian object. It was discovered on May 16, 1999 by Audrey C. Delsanti and Oliver R. Hainaut at La Silla Observatory, Chile.-References:* 1.http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html... 9 |
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152 |
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trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space....
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| 52 Europa 52 Europa is one of the larger asteroids. It has a diameter of 300 km, and was discovered on February 4, 1858 by H. Goldschmidt. It is named after Europa, one of Zeus's conquests in Greek mythology... $ |
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150.4 |
16.5 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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511 Davida511 Davida is a large main belt C-type asteroid. It was discovered by R. S. Dugan in 1903. It is thought to be one of the ten most massive asteroids. It is approximately 270–310 km in diameter and comprises an estimated 1.5% of the total mass of the asteroid belt... $ |
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144.7 |
43.8 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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87 Sylvia87 Sylvia is one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the belt . Sylvia is remarkable for being the first asteroid known to possess more than one moon.... $ |
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142.8 |
14.78 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}X-type The X-group of asteroids collects together several types with similar spectra, but probably quite different compositions.-Tholen classification:In the Tholen classification the X-group contains the types:* E-type* M-type, the largest grouping* P-type... {{mdash}}trinary |
irregular |
(26308) 1998 SM165', also written as 1998 SM165, is a binary trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on September 16, 1998 by Nichole M. Danzl...
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139.9 |
14 |
Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}binary |
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HyperionHyperion is a moon of Saturn discovered by William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond and William Lassell in 1848. It is distinguished by its irregular shape, its chaotic rotation, and its unexplained sponge-like appearance.... $ Saturn VII |
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135.0 |
5.58 |
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irregular |
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132.5 |
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unknown |
| (79983) 1999 DF9 ', also written as 1999 DF9, is a cubewano. It travels in a highly eccentric orbit which has a perihelion at 39.797 AU and an aphelion at 53.264 AU. It is about 265 km in diameter. It was discovered on February 20, 1999 by Jane X. Luu, Chadwick A. Trujillo and David C... 9 |
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132.5 |
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}cubewanoIn astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
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| 10199 Chariklo 10199 Chariklo is an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. It is the largest known centaur.Chariklo was discovered by James V. Scotti of the Spacewatch program on February 15, 1997...
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| 107 Camilla 107 Camilla is one of the largest main belt asteroids. It orbits within the Cybele Group, beyond most of the main belt asteroids. It has a very dark surface and primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by N. R... $ |
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129.4 |
11.2 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type... {{mdash}}binary |
irregular |
3 JunoJuno , formal designation 3 Juno in the Minor Planet Center catalogue system, was the third asteroid to be discovered and is one of the larger main belt asteroids, being one of the two largest stony asteroids, along with 15 Eunomia. Juno is estimated to contain 1% of the total mass of the asteroid... $ |
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128.8 |
26.7 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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irregular |
| 31 Euphrosyne 31 Euphrosyne is one of the largest main belt asteroids, discovered by James Ferguson on September 1, 1854. It was the first asteroid found from North America. It is named after Euphrosyne, one of the Charites in Greek mythology.... M |
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128 |
6.23 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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irregular |
15 Eunomia15 Eunomia is a very large asteroid in the inner main asteroid belt. It is the largest of the stony asteroids, and somewhere between the 8th to 12th largest Main Belt asteroid overall... $ |
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127.7 |
31.2 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| (148209) 2000 CR105*A |
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126 |
13 |
Detached object Detached objects are a dynamical class of bodies in the outer Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune. These objects have orbits whose points of closest approach to the Sun are sufficiently distant from the gravitational influence of Neptune that they are essentially unaffected by Neptune and the...
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| (119878) 2002 CY224 ', also written as 2002 CY224, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the scattered disc region of the Solar System. It was discovered on February 7, 2002 by Marc W. Buie.-References:...
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121 |
15 |
Scattered disc object |
unknown |
| 65 Cybele 65 Cybele is one of the largest asteroids in the main belt. It gives its name to the Cybele asteroids which orbit outward from the Sun from the 2:1 orbital resonance with Jupiter. As a C-type asteroid it is dark in color and carbonaceous in composition... $ |
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118.7 |
17.8 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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irregular |
2060 Chiron2060 Chiron is a planetoid in the outer Solar System. Discovered in 1977 by Charles T. Kowal , it was the first known member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs, with an orbit between those of Saturn and Uranus.Although it was initially classified as an asteroid, it was later found to... *A 95P/Chiron |
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116.7 |
10 |
centaur |
irregular |
| 88 Thisbe 88 Thisbe is one of the largest main belt asteroids. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on June 15, 1866 and named after Thisbe, heroine of a Roman fable. An occultation of a star by Thisbe was observed on October 7, 1981... $ |
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116 |
10.5 M |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}B-typeB-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group. In the asteroid population, B-class objects are abundant in the outer main belt, and also dominate the high-inclination Pallas family which includes the second-largest asteroid 2 Pallas...
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irregular |
| 2004 VN112 ', also written as 2004 VN112, is an Extended Scattered disc object since it has perihelion greater than 40 AU and semi-major axis greater than 200 AU. It never gets closer than 47 AU from the Sun and averages being more than 300 AU from the Sun... 9 |
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115 |
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unknown |
| 2002 KW14 |
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115 |
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Kuiper belt object |
unknown |
| 65489 Ceto 65489 Ceto is a binary trans-Neptunian discovered on March 22, 2003 by C. A. Trujillo and M. Brown at Palomar. It is named after the sea goddess Ceto from Greek mythology.... M |
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114.85 |
3.74 |
Centaur{{mdash}}TNOA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}binary |
irregular |
| 324 Bamberga 324 Bamberga is one of the largest asteroids in the Main asteroid belt. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 25, 1892 in Vienna, making it one of the last large asteroids discovered... M |
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114 |
10 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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irregular |
| 451 Patientia 451 Patientia is an asteroid found in the main belt and with a diameter of 225km is one of the larger asteroids in the main belt. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on December 4, 1899. Its provisional name was 1899 EY.-References:...
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112.5 |
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Main-belt asteroid |
irregular |
| 532 Herculina 532 Herculina is a very large asteroid, with a diameter of around 225 km.-Discovery:It was discovered on April 20, 1904, by Max Wolf in Heidelberg, and initially catalogued as 1904 NY. The origin of its name is not known; it may be named after the mythical Hercules, or after an unknown woman...
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111 |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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irregular |
| 48 Doris 48 Doris is one of the largest main belt asteroids. Doris was discovered by H. Goldschmidt on September 19, 1857 and named after Doris, an Oceanid in Greek mythology.- Occultations :... A |
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111 |
17 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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irregular |
| 375 Ursula 375 Ursula is one of the largest Main belt asteroids.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on September 18, 1893 in Nice.Observations of an occultation on November 15, 1984, produced six chords indicating an estimated diameter of 216±10 km....
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108 |
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Main-belt asteroid |
unknown |
| 45 Eugenia 45 Eugenia is a large Main belt asteroid. It is famed as one of the first asteroids to be found to have a moon orbiting it. It is also the second known triple asteroid, after 87 Sylvia.- Discovery :Eugenia was discovered in 1857 by Hermann Goldschmidt... M |
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107 |
5.69 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}F-type F-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group.-Characteristics:Generally similar to the B-type asteroids, but... {{mdash}}trinary |
irregular |
PhoebePhoebe is an irregular satellite of Saturn. It was discovered by William Henry Pickering on 17 March 1899 from photographic plates that had been taken starting on 16 August 1898 at Arequipa, Peru by DeLisle Stewart... $ Saturn IX |
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106.6 |
8.29 |
Satellite of Saturn |
irregular |
| 29 Amphitrite 29 Amphitrite is one of the largest S-type asteroids, probably third in diameter after Eunomia and Juno, although Iris and Herculina are similar in size.... $ |
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106 |
11.8 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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irregular |
| 53311 Deucalion 53311 Deucalion is a trans-Neptunian object . It was discovered in 1999 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey . It is classified as a cubewano, and named after Deucalion, from Greek mythology....
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105.5 |
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}cubewanoIn astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
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| (33001) 1997 CU29 ', also written as 1997 CU29 is a cubewano. It has a perihelion at 41.660 AU and an aphelion of 45.134 AU. is about 211 km in diameter. It was discovered on February 6, 1997 by David C. Jewitt, Jane X. Luu, Chad Trujillo, and Jun Chen at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.-References:...
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105.5 |
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}cubewanoIn astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
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| 423 Diotima 423 Diotima is a one of the largest Main belt asteroids. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material.... A |
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104.385 |
16 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| (181902) 1999 RD215 |
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104.33 |
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Scattered disc object |
irregular |
| 13 Egeria 13 Egeria is a large Main belt G-type asteroid.It was discovered by A. de Gasparis on November 2, 1850, and was named by Urbain J. J. Le Verrier, whose computations led to the discovery of Neptune. Egeria was a goddess of Aricia, in Italy, and the wife of Numa Pompilius, second king of... M |
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104 |
16.3 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}G-type G-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid. The most notable asteroid in this class is 1 Ceres.-Characteristics:Generally similar to the C-type objects, but containing a strong ultraviolet absorption feature below 0.5 μm...
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| 19 Fortuna 19 Fortuna is one of the largest main belt asteroids. It has a composition similar to 1 Ceres: a darkly colored surface that is heavily space weathered with the composition of primitive organic compounds, including tholins.... $ |
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103.9 |
12.7 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}G-type G-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid. The most notable asteroid in this class is 1 Ceres.-Characteristics:Generally similar to the C-type objects, but containing a strong ultraviolet absorption feature below 0.5 μm...
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irregular |
| 54598 Bienor 54598 Bienor is a centaur that crosses the orbit of Uranus. It is named after Bienor, one of the centaurs that attended Pirithous' wedding and fought in the ensuing battle against the Lapiths. He was killed by Theseus.-External links:...
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103.5 |
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centaur |
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| 94 Aurora 94 Aurora is one of the largest main belt asteroids. With an albedo of only 0.04, it is darker than soot, and has a primitive compositions consisting of carbonaecous material. It was discovered by J. C...
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102.5 |
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 624 Hektor 624 Hektor is the largest of the Jovian Trojan asteroids. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff.Hektor is a D-type asteroid, dark and reddish in colour. It lies in Jupiter's leading Lagrangian point, , called the 'Greek' node after one of the two sides in the legendary Trojan War... A |
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101.5 |
14 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are... {{mdash}}Jupiter Trojan{{mdash}}binary |
irregular |
| 22 Kalliope 22 Kalliope is a large main belt asteroid of the M-type, discovered by J. R. Hind on November 16, 1852. It is named after Calliope, the Greek Muse of epic poetry.-Characteristics:... M |
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101.4 |
8.09 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are... {{mdash}}M-typeM-type asteroids are asteroids of partially known composition; they are moderately bright . Some, but not all, are made of nickel-iron, either pure or mixed with small amounts of stone. These are thought to be pieces of the metallic core of differentiated asteroids that were fragmented by... {{mdash}}binary |
irregular |
| 4348 Poulydamas 4348 Poulydamas is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 11, 1988 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...
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100.6 |
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are... {{mdash}}Jupiter trojan |
irregular |
| 38083 Rhadamanthus 38083 Rhadamanthus is a trans-Neptunian object . It was discovered in 1999 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey. It was originally classified as a plutino but no longer is.It is named after the Greek mythological figure Rhadamanthus.-External links:...
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100.5 |
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Kuiper belt object |
irregular |
Objects between 100 and 50 km in radius
Objects 200 km to 100 km in average diameter. Objects below this point are not massive enough to be rounded by their own gravity.
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7 Iris7 Iris is a large main belt asteroid. Among S-type asteroids it ranks fifth in geometric mean diameter after Eunomia, Juno, Amphitrite and Herculina.... $ |
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99.915 |
13.6 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 24 Themis 24 Themis is one of the largest Main belt asteroids. It is also the largest member of the Themis asteroid family. It was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on April 5, 1853... M |
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99 |
11.3 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type... {{mdash}}ThemisThe Themis Asteroid Family is a Hirayama family of asteroids found in the outer portion of the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. At a mean distance of 3.13 AU from the Sun, it is one of the more populous asteroid families. It consists of a well-defined core of larger...
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| 702 Alauda 702 Alauda is a large binary minor planet.Alauda is 194.73 km in diameter. Since it is a binary system, Rojo and Margot have estimated it to have a mass of 6.05 kg with a density of 1.56 g/cm³.- Satellite :...
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97.4 |
6.05 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type... {{mdash}}binary |
LarissaLarissa , also known as Neptune VII, is the fifth closest inner satellite of Neptune. It is named after Larissa, a lover of Poseidon in Greek mythology.-Discovery:... A Neptune VII |
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97 |
4.2 |
Satellite of Neptune |
| (85633) 1998 KR65 ', also written as 1998 KR65, is a cubewano. It has a perihelion at 42.385 AU and an aphelion at 44.859 AU. It is about 192 km in diameter. It was discovered on May 29, 1998 by Gary M. Bernstein.-References:1. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/TNOs.html...
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96 |
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Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}cubewano In astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
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| (86047) 1999 OY3 ', also written as 1999 OY3, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt beyond Pluto. It was discovered on July 18, 1999 at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.-References:**...
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96 |
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Kuiper belt object{{mdash}}cubewano In astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
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| 121 Hermione 121 Hermione is a very large asteroid of the dark C spectral type, orbiting in the Cybele group in the far outer main belt. As a C-type, it is probably composed of carbonaceous materials.-Discovery:... M |
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95 |
5.38 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are... {{mdash}}C-typethumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type... {{mdash}}binary |
| 372 Palma 372 Palma is one of the largest Main belt asteroids.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on August 19, 1893 in Nice. It is thought to be named for the capital city of Majorca, an island in the Balearics , which are located south of France...
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94.31 |
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 128 Nemesis 128 Nemesis is a very large and very dark main belt asteroid, of carbonaceous composition. It rotates rather slowly, taking about one and half Earth days to complete one revolution. Nemesis is the largest member of the Nemesian asteroid family bearing its name. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on...
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94.1 |
7 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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6 Hebe6 Hebe is a large Main belt asteroid, containing around half a percent of the mass of the belt. Its apparently high bulk density , however, means that by volume it does not rank among the top twenty asteroids... $ |
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93.1 |
12.8 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 16 Psyche 16 Psyche is one of the ten most massive Main belt asteroids. It is over 200 kilometers in diameter and contains a little less than 1% of the mass of the entire main asteroid belt. It is the most massive of the metallic M-type asteroids.... $ |
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93.0 |
21.9 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 5145 Pholus 5145 Pholus is a Centaur of the solar system running in an eccentric orbit, with a perihelion less than Saturn's and aphelion greater than Neptune's. Pholus has not come within one astronomical unit of a planet since 764 BC, and will not again until 5290. It is believed that Pholus originated as...
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92.5 |
6.6 |
centaur |
| 154 Bertha 154 Bertha is a very dark and very large outer Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on November 4, 1875, but the credit from the discovery was given to Prosper. It is probably named after Berthe Martin-Flammarion, sister of the astronomer Camille Flammarion....
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92.47 |
5.2 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 76 Freia 76 Freia is a very large main belt asteroid. It orbits in the outer part of the asteroid belt and is classified as a Cybele asteroid. Its composition is very primitive and it is extremely dark in color. Freia was discovered by the astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on October 21, 1862 in Copenhagen,...
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91.83 |
6.5 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}Cybele Cybele asteroids are a group of asteroids in the main belt with a mean orbital radius between 3.27 AU and 3.7 AU, an eccentricity less than 0.3, and an inclination less than 25°....
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| (59358) 1999 CL158 ', also written as 1999 CL158, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on February 11, 1999 by Jane X. Luu, Chad Trujillo, and David C... 9 |
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91.5 |
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}unstable |
| 130 Elektra 130 Elektra is a very large outer main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on February 17, 1873 and named after Electra, an avenger in Greek mythology.Its spectrum is of the G type, hence it probably has a Ceres-like composition... M |
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JanusJanus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as Saturn X . It is named after the mythological Janus.-Discovery and orbit:Janus occupies essentially the same orbit as the moon Epimetheus... $ Saturn X |
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| 259 Aletheia 259 Aletheia is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is composed of primitive carbonaceous materials and is very dark in colour, darker than coal.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on June 28, 1886 in Clinton, New York....
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GalateaGalatea , also known as Neptune VI, is the fourth closest inner satellite of Neptune. It is named after Galatea, one of the Nereids of Greek legend.... Neptune VI |
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| 88611 Teharonhiawako 88611 Teharonhiawako is a trans-Neptunian object and a member of the Kuiper belt. It has a large moon Sawiskera, which at 108-136 km in diameter is comparable to the 156-196 km of its primary....
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| 42355 Typhon 42355 Typhon is a Scattered disc object that was discovered on February 5, 2002 by the NEAT program. It is named after the monster of Greek myth, Typhon....
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| (19255) 1994 VK8 ', also written as 1994 VK8, is a trans-Neptunian object of the cubewano class. It was discovered on November 8, 1994 by Alan Fitzsimmons, Donal O'Ceallaigh, and Iwan P. Williams....
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.... {{mdash}}cubewanoIn astronomy a classical Kuiper Belt object, also called a cubewano, is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet...
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| 120 Lachesis 120 Lachesis is a very large and very dark main belt asteroid. As a primitive C-type asteroid it is likely composed of carbonaceous material. It was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on April 10, 1872 and named after one of the Moirae, or Fates, in Greek mythology. The only observed Lachesean...
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| 41 Daphne 41 Daphne is a large Main belt asteroid. This dark-surfaced body is likely composed of primitive carbonaceous chondrites. It was discovered by H. Goldschmidt on May 22, 1856 and named after Daphne, the nymph in Greek mythology who was turned into a laurel tree. Daphne has been observed to occult...
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9 Metis9 Metis is one of the larger main belt asteroids. It is composed of silicates and metallic nickel-iron, and may be the core remnant of a large asteroid that was destroyed by an ancient collision... $ |
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| 747 Winchester 747 Winchester is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1913, and is named after the town in which it was discovered, Winchester, Massachusetts, in the USA.-External links:*...
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153 Hilda153 Hilda is a very large asteroid in the outer Main belt. Because it is composed of primitive carbonaceous materials, it has a very dark surface....
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HimaliaHimalia is the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, and the sixth largest overall. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory on 1904 December 3 and is named after the nymph Himalia who bore three sons of Zeus .-Discovery:Himalia, the largest irregular satellite of... M Jupiter VI |
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Satellite of Jupiter{{mdash}}Himalia group The Himalia group is a group of prograde irregular satellites of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Himalia and are thought to have a common origin.The known members of the group are :* Leda...
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NamakaNamaka is the smaller, inner moon of the dwarf planet Haumea. It is named after Nāmaka, one of the daughters of Haumea.-Discovery:Namaka was discovered on 30 June 2005 and announced on November 29, 2005... Haumea II |
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Satellite of Haumea The outer Solar System dwarf planet Haumea has two known moons, Hiiaka and Namaka, named after Hawaiian goddesses. These small moons were discovered in 2005, from observations of Haumea made at the large telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii....
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| 96 Aegle 96 Aegle is a very large main belt asteroid. It has a dark-colored surface and probably a primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by Jérôme Coggia on February 17, 1868 and named after one of the three Aegles in Greek mythology. Aegle has been observed occulting three stars.-...
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| 241 Germania 241 Germania is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of dark, privitive carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Robert Luther on September 12, 1884 in Düsseldorf....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 194 Prokne 194 Prokne is a very large and dark main belt asteroid. It has a primitive carbonaceous composition.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on March 21, 1879 in Clinton, New York and named after Procne, the sister of Philomela in Greek mythology....
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AmaltheaAmalthea is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet. It was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology... $ Jupiter V |
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| 911 Agamemnon 911 Agamemnon is a Trojan asteroid that orbits the Sun at the same distance as the planet Jupiter. It is located in the leading Lagrangian point ....
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66652 Borasisi66652 Borasisi is a trans-Neptunian object discovered in 1999 by A. Trujillo, J. Luu and D. Jewitt and identified as binary in 2003 by K...
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| 54 Alexandra 54 Alexandra is a very large and dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by H. Goldschmidt on September 10, 1858 and named after the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt. On May 17, 2005 this asteroid occulted a faint star and the event was observed and timed in a number of locations within...
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| 386 Siegena 386 Siegena is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 1, 1894 in Heidelberg....
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| 59 Elpis 59 Elpis is a very large main belt asteroid. Being a C-type asteroid it is very dark and carbonaceous. Elpis was discovered by J. Chacornac on September 12, 1860. It was his sixth and final asteroid discovery. It is named after Elpis, a personification of hope in Greek...
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| 1437 Diomedes 1437 Diomedes is a Jupiter trojan asteroid that orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of Trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Diomedes. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on August 3, 1937 in Heidelberg, Germany.-External links:* * ...
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| 444 Gyptis 444 Gyptis is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by J... M |
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PuckPuck is an inner moon of Uranus. It was discovered in December 1985 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The name Puck comes from Celtic mythology and English folklore. The orbit of Puck lies between the rings of Uranus and the first of Uranus' large moons, Miranda. Puck is approximately spherical in... A |
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| 409 Aspasia 409 Aspasia is a very large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on December 9, 1895 in Nice....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 20461 Dioretsa Dioretsa is an asteroid discovered in 1999 notable for its unusual orbit, which is highly eccentric and retrograde. Its name is the word 'asteroid' spelled backwards to reflect this fact...
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(15875) 1996 TP66', also written as 1996 TP66, is a trans-Neptunian object residing in the Kuiper belt. It is in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune similar to Pluto. It was discovered on October 11, 1996 by Chad Trujillo, David C. Jewitt, and Jane X...
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Kuiper belt object{{mdash}} inner plutinoIn astronomy, a plutino is a trans-Neptunian object in 2:3 mean motion resonance with Neptune. For every 2 orbits that a Plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times. Plutinos are named after Pluto, which follows an orbit trapped in the same resonance, with the Italian diminutive suffix -ino...
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| 209 Dido 209 Dido is a very large main-belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of privitive carbonaceous materials. Like many asteroids of its type, it has an extremely low albedo.It was discovered by C. H. F...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 334 Chicago 334 Chicago is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Max Wolf on August 23, 1892 in Heidelberg....
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| 804 Hispania 804 Hispania is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered from Barcelona on 20 March 1915 by Josep Comas Solá , the first asteroid to be discovered by a Spaniard.-External links:*...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}P-type P-type asteroids have low albedo and a featureless reddish electromagnetic spectrum. It has been suggested that they have a composition of organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates, possibly with water ice in their interior...
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| 185 Eunike 185 Eunike is a dark and very large Main belt asteroid. It has a primitive carbonaceous composition.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on March 1, 1878 in Clinton, New York and named after Eunike, a Nereid in Greek mythology whose name means 'happy victory'...
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| 139 Juewa 139 Juewa is a very large and dark Main belt asteroid. It is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. It was the first asteroid discovered from China, in Beijing. It was discovered by the visiting American astronomer James Craig Watson on October 10, 1874; Watson was in China to...
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| 354 Eleonora 354 Eleonora is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on January 17, 1893 in Nice....
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| 85 Io 85 Io is a large, dark Main belt asteroid of the C spectral class. It is probably a primitive body composed of carbonates. Like 70 Panopaea it orbits within the Eunomia asteroid family but it is not related to the shattered parent body....
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| 165 Loreley 165 Loreley is a very large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 9, 1876 in Clinton, New York and named after the Lorelei, a figure in German folklore....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 173 Ino 173 Ino is a large main belt asteroid. It has a dark surface and primitive carbonaceous composition.It was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on August 1, 1877 and named after Ino, a queen in Greek mythology....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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11 Parthenope11 Parthenope is a large, bright main belt asteroid.Parthenope was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on May 11, 1850, the second of his nine asteroid discoveries. It was named after one of the Sirens in Greek mythology, said to have founded the city of Naples...
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| (137295) 1999 RB216 1999 RB216, also written as 1999 RB216, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on September 8, 1999 by Chad Trujillo, David C. Jewitt, and Jane X. Luu....
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| 14 Irene 14 Irene is a very large Main belt asteroid.14 Irene was discovered by J. R. Hind on May 19, 1851, and named after Eirene, a personification of peace in Greek mythology. She was one of the Horae, daughter of Zeus and Themis. The name was suggested by Sir John Herschel...
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| 89 Julia 89 Julia is a large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by a French astronomer Édouard Stephan on August 6, 1866. It was first of his two asteroid discoveries; the other was 91 Aegina. It is believed to be named after Saint Julia of Corsica. A stellar occultation by Julia was observed on December...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 536 Merapi 536 Merapi is a asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and is classified as a minor planet, which orbits the Sun. It was discovered by George Henry Peterson May 11, 1904 in Washington, D.C. in the United States....
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| 776 Berbericia 776 Berbericia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. This main-belt asteroid was discovered A. Massinger at Heidelberg January 24, 1914. It was named in honor of Adolf Berberich , a German astronomer....
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| 145 Adeona 145 Adeona is a rather large Main belt asteroid. Its surface is very dark, and composition likely of primitive carbonaceous material.The Adeona family of asteroids is named after it.It was discovered by C. H. F...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}Adena The Adeona family is an asteroid family that formed from the parent body 145 Adeona. estimated 1,000 asteroids....
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| 150 Nuwa 150 Nuwa is a large Main belt asteroid. It is composed of primitive carbonaceous chondritic material. The surface is exceedingly dark.It was discovered by J. C...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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DysnomiaDysnomia, officially Eris I Dysnomia, is the only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris. It was discovered in 2005 by Mike Brown and the laser guide star adaptive optics team at the W. M...
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Satellite of ErisEris, formal designation 136199 Eris, is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest body known to orbit the Sun directly. It is approximately 2,500 kilometres in diameter and 27% more massive than Pluto....
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DespinaDespina , also known as Neptune V, is the third closest inner satellite of Neptune. It is named after Despoina, a nymph who was a daughter of Poseidon and Demeter.... A |
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| 49 Pales 49 Pales is a large, dark Main belt asteroid. Pales was discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt on September 19, 1857 and named after Pales, goddess of shepherds in Roman mythology.-External links:* from JPL /... M |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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SycoraxSycorax is the largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.Sycorax was discovered on 1997-09-06 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J...
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| 39 Laetitia 39 Laetitia is a large, bright main belt asteroid.Laetitia was discovered by J. Chacornac on February 8, 1856 and named after Laetitia, a minor Roman goddess of gaiety....
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| 117 Lomia 117 Lomia is a rather large Main belt asteroid. It has a very dark surface and primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by A. Borrelly on September 12, 1871. Occultations by Lomia have so far been observed twice, in 2000 and 2003....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 238 Hypatia 238 Hypatia is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. Like many asteroids of this type, its surface is very dark in colour....
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| 168 Sibylla 168 Sibylla is a large Main belt asteroid. It is very dark and composed of primitive carbonaceous materials.It is a Cybele asteroid, orbiting beyond most of the Main belt asteroids.It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 28, 1876....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 283 Emma 283 Emma is a large main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 8, 1889 in Nice.-Satellite:A companion for 283 Emma was detected on 14 July, 2003 by W. J. Merline et al. using the Keck II telescope. It is about 12 km in diameter and is designated S/2003 1. The announcement... M |
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| 51 Nemausa 51 Nemausa is a large Main belt asteroid similar to 1 Ceres in composition. It was discovered in the city of Nîmes, France, after which it was named . The discoverer was a certain "A. Laurent" who never made any more asteroid discoveries and about whom not much seems to be known...
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 106 Dione 106 Dione is a large main belt asteroid. It probably has a composition similar to 1 Ceres. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on October 10, 1868 and named after Dione, a Titan in Greek mythology. Dione occulted a dim star on January 19, 1983...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}G-type G-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid. The most notable asteroid in this class is 1 Ceres.-Characteristics:Generally similar to the C-type objects, but containing a strong ultraviolet absorption feature below 0.5 μm...
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| (118378) 1999 HT11 ', also written as 1999 HT11, is a Trans-Neptunian object in a 7:4 orbital resonance with Neptune. It travels in a highly eccentric orbit which has a perihelion at 38.858 AU and an aphelion at 49.231 AU. It is about 146 km in diameter...
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| 137 Meliboea 137 Meliboea is a large and very dark main belt asteroid. It is composed of carbonaceous materials. It is the largest body in the Meliboea family of asteroids. Only 791 Ani approaches its size. It was discovered by J. Palisa on April 21, 1874, the second of his many asteroid discoveries. It is...
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| 20 Massalia 20 Massalia is a large and fairly bright Main belt asteroid. It is also the largest member of the Massalia family of asteroids.-Characteristics:... $ |
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| 211 Isolda 211 Isolda is a very large, dark Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 1172 Äneas 1172 Äneas is a Trojan asteroid. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl in Heidelberg, Germany, on October 17, 1930. Its provisional designation was 1930 UA. It is named after Aeneas, a mythological Trojan prince.-External links:*...
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| 144 Vibilia 144 Vibilia is a dark, large Main belt asteroid and probably primitive in composition.It is the only large member of the Vibilia asteroid family.It was discovered by C. H. F...
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| 508 Princetonia 508 Princetonia is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan at Heidelberg, Germany in 1903 and named "Princetonia" for Princeton University in New Jersey in the United States....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}B-typeB-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group. In the asteroid population, B-class objects are abundant in the outer main belt, and also dominate the high-inclination Pallas family which includes the second-largest asteroid 2 Pallas...
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| 361 Bononia 361 Bononia is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a D-type asteroid and is probably composed of organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 11, 1893 in Nice....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}D-type D-type asteroids have a very low albedo and a featureless reddish electromagnetic spectrum. It has been suggested that they have a composition of organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates, possibly with water ice in their interiors...
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| 420 Bertholda 420 Bertholda is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a P-type asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 7, 1896 in Heidelberg....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}P-type P-type asteroids have low albedo and a featureless reddish electromagnetic spectrum. It has been suggested that they have a composition of organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates, possibly with water ice in their interior...
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| 93 Minerva 93 Minerva is a large main belt asteroid. It is a C-type asteroid, meaning that it has a dark surface and possibly a primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on August 24, 1867 and named after Minerva, the Roman equivalent of Athena, goddess of wisdom...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 617 Patroclus 617 Patroclus is a binary minor planet made up of two similarly-sized objects orbiting their common centre of gravity. It is classified as a Trojan asteroid, sharing an orbit with Jupiter. It was discovered in 1906 by August Kopff, and was the second Trojan to be discovered...
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| 308 Polyxo 308 Polyxo is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a rare T-type asteroid.It was discovered by A. Borrelly on March 31, 1891 in Marseilles....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}T-type T-type asteroids are rare inner-belt asteroids of unknown composition with dark, featureless and moderately red spectra, and a moderate absorption feature shortwards of 0.85 µm. No direct meteorite analog has been found to date. Thought to be anhydrous, they are believed to be related to P-types or...
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| 18 Melpomene 18 Melpomene is a large, bright Main belt asteroid. It is composed of silicates and metals.It was discovered by J. R. Hind on June 24, 1852 and named after Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology....
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| 268 Adorea 268 Adorea is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a primitive carbonaceous F-type/C-type asteroid.Adorea is one of the Themis family members, meaning that it is a fragment of the original body that shattered in an ancient cataclysm that resulted in the formation of the family.It...
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| 349 Dembowska Asteroid 349 Dembowska is named in honor of the Baron Hercules Dembowski, an Italian astronomer who made significant contributions to research on double and multiple stars. The asteroid was discovered over a century ago on December 9, 1892, by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois while working at...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}R-type R-type asteroids are moderately bright, relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids that are spectrally intermediate between the V and A-type asteroids. The spectrum shows distinct olivine and pyroxene features at 1 and 2 micrometres, with a possibility of plagioclase...
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| 69 Hesperia 69 Hesperia is a large, M-type main belt asteroid.Hesperia was discovered by the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli on April 26, 1861. It was his only asteroid discovery. It is named after one of the Hesperides in Greek mythology....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}M-type M-type asteroids are asteroids of partially known composition; they are moderately bright . Some, but not all, are made of nickel-iron, either pure or mixed with small amounts of stone. These are thought to be pieces of the metallic core of differentiated asteroids that were fragmented by...
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| 762 Pulcova 762 Pulcova is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Grigoriy N. Neujmin in 1913, and is named after Pulkovo Observatory, near Saint Petersburg. Pulcova is 137 km in diameter, and is a C-type asteroid, which means that it is dark in colouring with a carbonate composition...
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| 196 Philomela 196 Philomela is a large and bright main belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on May 14, 1879 in Clinton, New York and named after Philomela, the woman who became a nightingale in Greek mythology....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 212 Medea 212 Medea is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is rather dark in colour.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 6, 1880 in Pola and was named after Medea, a figure in Greek mythology....
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PortiaPortia is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 1986-01-03, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 1. The moon is named after Portia, the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice... A |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}X-type The X-group of asteroids collects together several types with similar spectra, but probably quite different compositions.-Tholen classification:In the Tholen classification the X-group contains the types:* E-type* M-type, the largest grouping* P-type...
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| 588 Achilles 588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on February 22, 1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the Trojan asteroids to be discovered, and is named after Achilles, the fictional hero from the Iliad. It orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system...
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| 690 Wratislavia 690 Wratislavia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Wratislavia was discovered on October 16, 1909. IRAS data shows it is about 135km in diameter.-External links:* * from JPL / *...
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| 111 Ate 111 Ate is a large, dark, and carbonaceous main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 14, 1870 and named after Ate, a personification of destruction in Greek mythology. Two stellar occultations by Ate were observed in 2000, only two months apart....
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| 247 Eukrate 247 Eukrate is a rather large Main belt asteroid. It is dark and likely a primitive carbonaceus body.It was discovered by Robert Luther on March 14, 1885 in Düsseldorf.It was named after Eukrate, a Nereid in Greek mythology.- References :...
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| 705 Erminia 705 Erminia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Its name derives from the comic opera Erminie.- External links :*...
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| 471 Papagena 471 Papagena is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on June 7, 1901. Its provisional name was 1901 GN.Papagena comes to a favorable near opposition apparent magnitude of better than magnitude 9.6 every five years...
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SatelliteIn the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.... of 65489 Ceto65489 Ceto is a binary trans-Neptunian discovered on March 22, 2003 by C. A. Trujillo and M. Brown at Palomar. It is named after the sea goddess Ceto from Greek mythology....
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| 1998 WW31 ' is a double Kuiper belt object. It was discovered in 1998 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey . forms a binary system with another object with the IAU provisional designation ; the first trans-Neptunian binary to be discovered since Pluto, and one of the most symmetrical binaries known in the Solar system...
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| 147 Protogeneia 147 Protogeneia is a large main belt asteroid with a low eccentricity and low inclination . It has a dark surface and probably a primitive composition of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Lipót Schulhof on July 10, 1875, his only asteroid discovery...
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| 344 Desiderata 344 Desiderata is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on November 15, 1892 in Nice....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 146 Lucina 146 Lucina is a main belt asteroid. It is large, dark and has a carbonaceous composition.It was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on June 8, 1875 and named after Lucina, the Roman goddess of childbirth....
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| 141 Lumen 141 Lumen is a dark , large rocky asteroid 130 km in diameter orbiting in the Main belt near the Eunomia family of asteroids. It is not, however, physically related to the group, being of the wrong spectral class...
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| 356 Liguria 356 Liguria is a very large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on January 21, 1893 in Nice. It was named for the Italian region of the same name. It is one of seven of Charlois's discoveries that was expressly named by the Astromomisches Rechen-Institut ....
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| 187 Lamberta 187 Lamberta is a large and very dark main belt asteroid. It has a composition of primitive carbonaceous materials.It was discovered by J. Coggia on April 11, 1878. It was the second of his five asteroid discoveries. It is named after the astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 95 Arethusa 95 Arethusa is a large main belt asteroid. Its coloring is dark, its composition carbonaceous and primitive. It was discovered by Robert Luther on November 23, 1867 and named after one of the various Arethusas in Greek mythology...
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| 419 Aurelia 419 Aurelia is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an F-type asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 7, 1896 in Heidelberg....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}F-type F-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group.-Characteristics:Generally similar to the B-type asteroids, but...
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| 200 Dynamene 200 Dynamene is a large and very dark Main belt asteroid. It probably has a primitive composition similar to the carbonaceous chondrite meteorites....
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8 Flora8 Flora is a large, bright main belt asteroid. It is the innermost large asteroid: no asteroid closer to the Sun has a diameter above 25 kilometres or two-elevenths that of Flora itself, and not until the tiny 149 Medusa was discovered was a single asteroid orbiting at a closer mean distance...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:... {{mdash}}FloraThe Flora family of asteroids is a large grouping of S-type asteroids in the inner main belt, whose origin and properties are relatively poorly understood at present...
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| 92 Undina 92 Undina is a large main belt asteroid. It has an unusually high albedo and an M-type spectrum. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on July 7, 1867. It is named the eponymous heroine of Undine, a popular novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Undina is a member of the Veritas asteroid family,...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}M-type M-type asteroids are asteroids of partially known composition; they are moderately bright . Some, but not all, are made of nickel-iron, either pure or mixed with small amounts of stone. These are thought to be pieces of the metallic core of differentiated asteroids that were fragmented by...
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| 426 Hippo 426 Hippo is a very large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on August 25, 1897 in Nice....
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| 47 Aglaja 47 Aglaja is a large, dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by R. Luther on September 15, 1857. It is named after Aglaea, one of the Charites in Greek mythology.- External links :*-References:...
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| 279 Thule 279 Thule is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a D-type asteroid and is probably composed of organic-rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}D-type D-type asteroids have a very low albedo and a featureless reddish electromagnetic spectrum. It has been suggested that they have a composition of organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates, possibly with water ice in their interiors...
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| 1143 Odysseus 1143 Odysseus is a Jupiter trojan asteroid that orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Odysseus Laertiades in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth in 1930.-External...
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| 469 Argentina 469 Argentina is an asteroid that was discovered by Luigi Carnera on February 20, 1901. Its provisional name was 1901 GE. 469 Argentina has an estimated rotation period of 12.3 hours. - References :...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}Cybele Cybele asteroids are a group of asteroids in the main belt with a mean orbital radius between 3.27 AU and 3.7 AU, an eccentricity less than 0.3, and an inclination less than 25°....
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| 159 Aemilia 159 Aemilia is a large Main belt asteroid. This slowly rotating, dark asteroid has a primitive carbonaceous composition.It orbits within the Hygiea family, although it may be an unrelated interloping asteroid, as it is too big to have arisen from the cratering process that most likely produced that...
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| 405 Thia 405 Thia is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on July 23, 1895 in Nice.-External links:...
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216 Kleopatra216 Kleopatra is a Main belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa on April 10, 1880 in Pola. It is named after Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}M-type M-type asteroids are asteroids of partially known composition; they are moderately bright . Some, but not all, are made of nickel-iron, either pure or mixed with small amounts of stone. These are thought to be pieces of the metallic core of differentiated asteroids that were fragmented by... {{mdash}}trinary |
| 46 Hestia 46 Hestia is a large, dark Main belt asteroid. It is also the primary body of the Hestia asteroid clump. It was discovered by N. R. Pogson on August 16, 1857 and is named after Hestia, Greek goddess of the hearth.-Mass:... A |
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| 104 Klymene 104 Klymene is a large, dark main belt asteroid. It has probably a carbonaceous composition. Klymene is a member of the extensive Themis asteroid family. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 13, 1868 and named after one of the many Clymenes in Greek mythology.-References:...
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| 410 Chloris 410 Chloris is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. It is the namesake of the Chloris family of asteroids....
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| 134 Sophrosyne 134 Sophrosyne is a large main belt asteroid. It has an exceedingly dark surface and most likely a primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by Robert Luther on September 27, 1873, and is named after the concept of sophrosyne, Plato's term for 'moderation'....
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| 328 Gudrun 328 Gudrun is a very large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 18, 1892 in Heidelberg....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 68 Leto 68 Leto is a large main belt asteroid. Its spectral type is S. It was discovered by Robert Luther on April 29, 1861, and named after Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis in Greek mythology.-External links:* from JPL /...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 70 Panopaea 70 Panopaea is a large main belt asteroid. It orbits close to the Eunomia asteroid family. However, it is a dark, primitive carbonaceous C-type asteroid and not related to the parent body of the Eunomia family which consists of S-type asteroids. Panopaea was discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt on...
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| 127 Johanna 127 Johanna is a large Main belt asteroid. It has a very dark surface and is probably a primitive composition of carbonates. It was discovered by P. M. Henry on November 5, 1872 and is believed to be named after Joan of Arc....
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| 276 Adelheid 276 Adelheid is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified by IRAS satellite as a combination of P-type and C-type asteroids and so is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous materials....
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| 176 Iduna 176 Iduna is a large main belt asteroid. It has a composition similar to that of the largest main belt asteroid, 1 Ceres.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 14, 1877 in Clinton, New York. It is named after the Ydun, a club in Stockholm that hosted an astronomical conference.An...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}G-type G-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid. The most notable asteroid in this class is 1 Ceres.-Characteristics:Generally similar to the C-type objects, but containing a strong ultraviolet absorption feature below 0.5 μm...
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28 Bellona28 Bellona is a large main belt asteroid.Bellona was discovered by R. Luther on March 1, 1854. It is named after Bellona, the Roman goddess of war; the name was chosen to mark the beginning of the Crimean War.-References: ...
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| 156 Xanthippe 156 Xanthippe is a large main belt asteroid. It has a carbonaceous composition and an extremely dark surface. It is named after Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates.It was discovered by J. Palisa on November 22, 1875....
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| 86 Semele 86 Semele is a large and very dark main belt asteroid. It is probably composed of carbonates. Semele was discovered by German astronomer Friedrich Tietjen on January 4, 1866. It was his first and only asteroid discovery. It is named after Semele, the mother of Dionysus in Greek...
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| 78 Diana 78 Diana is a large and dark main belt asteroid. Its composition is carbonaceous and primitive. It was discovered by Robert Luther on March 15, 1863 and named after Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt. 78 Diana occulted a star on September 4, 1980. A diameter of 116 km was measured, closely matching...
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| 381 Myrrha 381 Myrrha is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on January 10, 1894 in Nice....
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| 225 Henrietta 225 Henrietta is a very large outer Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of privitive carbonaceous material...
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| 618 Elfriede -External links:*...
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| 105 Artemis 105 Artemis is a large main belt asteroid. It is a C-type asteroid, meaning that it is very dark and composed of carbonaceous material. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 16, 1868 and named after Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon. Several Artemisian stellar occultations have been...
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| 81 Terpsichore 81 Terpsichore is a large and very dark main belt asteroid. It has most likely a very primitive carbonaceous composition. It was found by the prolific comet discoverer Ernst Tempel on September 30, 1864. It is named after Terpsichore, the Muse of dance in Greek mythology.-References:...
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5 Astraea5 Astraea is a large main belt asteroid. Its surface is highly reflective and its composition is probably a mixture of nickel-iron with magnesium- and iron-silicates...
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| 74 Galatea 74 Galatea is a large Main belt asteroid. Its surface is very dark in color. Galatea was found by the prolific comet discoverer Ernst Tempel on August 29, 1862 in Marseilles, France. It was his third asteroid discovery. It is named after one of the two Galateas in Greek mythology. A stellar... |
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| 350 Ornamenta 350 Ornamenta is a relatively large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on December 14, 1892 in Nice, France....
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| 772 Tanete 772 Tanete is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Diameter of about 117.66 km.-External links:*...
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| 476 Hedwig 476 Hedwig is an asteroid. It was discovered by Luigi Carnera on August 17, 1901. Its provisional name was 1901 GQ. Diameter from JPL was listed at 116.76 km diameter. -See also:*List of Solar System objects by size...
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| 171 Ophelia 171 Ophelia is a main belt asteroid, a member of the Themis family of asteroids.It is large in size and its surface is dark. It probably has a primitive composition, similar to that of the carbonaceous chondrite meteorites....
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| 203 Pompeja 203 Pompeja is a quite large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 25, 1879 in Clinton, New York and named after Pompeii, the Roman town destroyed in volcanic eruption in 79 AD.- References :...
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| 3063 Makhaon 3063 Makhaon is a Jupiter trojan asteroid that orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of Trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Makhaon, who fought during the Trojan War. It was discovered by Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in Nauchnyj, Ukraine on...
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| 38 Leda 38 Leda is a large, dark main belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. Chacornac on January 12, 1856 and named after Leda, the mother of Helen of Troy in Greek mythology.Leda is also the name of a satellite of Jupiter.-References:...
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| 360 Carlova 360 Carlova is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 11, 1893 in Nice....
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| 521 Brixia 521 Brixia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....
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| 490 Veritas 490 Veritas is a large asteroid, which may have been involved in one of the more massive asteroid-asteroid collisions of the past 100 million years....
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| 466 Tisiphone 466 Tisiphone is an asteroid which orbits among the Cybele family of asteroids.-Discovery:It was discovered by Max Wolf and Luigi Carnera on January 17, 1901, and was assigned the provisional designation 1901 FX...
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| 53 Kalypso 53 Kalypso is a large and very dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by R. Luther on April 4, 1858. It is named after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology. Calypso is also the name of a moon of Saturn.- References :...
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| 2241 Alcathous 2241 Alcathous is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on November 22, 1979 by Kowal, C. at Palomar.- External links :*...
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| 388 Charybdis 388 Charybdis is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of privitive carbonates.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 7, 1894 in Nice....
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| 34 Circe 34 Circe is a large, very dark main belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. Chacornac on April 6, 1855 and named after Circe, a goddess in Greek mythology.-References:...
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EpimetheusEpimetheus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as Saturn XI. It is named after the mythological Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus.-Discovery:... $ Saturn XI |
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| 56 Melete 56 Melete is a large and dark main belt asteroid. It is a rather unusual class P asteroid, composition is probably organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates, with possible internal water ice. It was discovered by H. Goldschmidt on September 9, 1857 and was named after Melete, the Muse...
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| 129 Antigone 129 Antigone is a large main belt asteroid. Radar observations indicate that it is composed of almost pure nickel-iron. It and other similar asteroids probably originate from the core of a shattered Vesta-like planetesimal which had a differentiated interior. It was discovered by C. H. F...
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12 Victoria12 Victoria is a large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. R. Hind on September 13, 1850.Victoria is officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but the name also honours Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. The goddess Victoria was the daughter of Styx by the Titan Pallas...
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| 57 Mnemosyne 57 Mnemosyne is a large Main belt asteroid. It is a S-type asteroid. It was discovered by R. Luther on September 22, 1859. It is named after Mnemosyne, a Titaness in Greek mythology.-References:...
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| 545 Messalina 545 Messalina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....
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| 2797 Teucer 2797 Teucer is a Jupiter trojan asteroid that orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of Trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Teucer, who fought during the Trojan War. It was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa station of the...
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| 2920 Automedon 2920 Automedon is a Jupiter trojan asteroid that orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of Trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Automedon, who fought during the Trojan War. It was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa station...
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| 2001 QR322 ' was the first Neptune Trojan discovered in 2001 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey. It orbits ahead of Neptune at its Lagrangian point.With an absolute magnitude of 7.8 to 8.2, it has a diameter in the range of 60 to 160 km...
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| 140 Siwa 140 Siwa is a large and dark main belt asteroid. It has a composition of a P asteroid. It was discovered by J. Palisa on October 13, 1874 and named after Šiwa, the Slavic goddess of fertility. Siwa has a very flat lightcurve, indicating a spherical body.The Rosetta comet probe was to visit Siwa...
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| 91 Aegina 91 Aegina is a large main belt asteroid. Its surface coloring is very dark and the asteroid has probably a primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by a French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan on November 4, 1866. It was his second and final asteroid discovery. The first was 89...
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| 140 Siwa 140 Siwa is a large and dark main belt asteroid. It has a composition of a P asteroid. It was discovered by J. Palisa on October 13, 1874 and named after Šiwa, the Slavic goddess of fertility. Siwa has a very flat lightcurve, indicating a spherical body.The Rosetta comet probe was to visit Siwa...
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| 595 Polyxena -External links:*...
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| 230 Athamantis 230 Athamantis is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid, and was discovered by K. de Ball on September 3, 1882 in Bothkamp...
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| 659 Nestor 659 Nestor is a Jupiter trojan asteroid orbiting the Sun. Along with the other Jupiter trojans in the Greek Camp, it orbits along Jupiter's path, about 60 degrees ahead of the planet.Observed 30 June 2006 when it occulted TYC 6854-00630...
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37 Fides37 Fides is a large main belt asteroid.It was discovered by R. Luther on October 5, 1855 and named after Fides, the Roman goddess of loyalty.-References:...
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| 514 Armida 514 Armida is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....
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| 23 Thalia 23 Thalia is a large main belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. R. Hind on December 15, 1852 and named after Thalia, the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry in Greek mythology.-External links:* from JPL /...
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| 2007 VL305 ' is a Neptune Trojan discovered on November 4, 2007 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It was first imaged in November 2005. Only five others Neptune trojans are known: , , , and . They have the same orbital period as Neptune and orbit at the Lagrangian point about 60 degrees ahead of Neptune.It... A |
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| 40 Harmonia 40 Harmonia is a large main belt asteroid.It was discovered by H. Goldschmidt on March 31, 1856 and named after Harmonia, the Greek goddess of harmony. The name was chosen to mark the end of the Crimean War.-External links:* from JPL /...
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| 357 Ninina 357 Ninina is a very large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 11, 1893 in Nice....
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| 181 Eucharis 181 Eucharis is a large, slowly rotating Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a K-type asteroid. It is named after Eucharis, a Greek nymph....
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| 346 Hermentaria 346 Hermentaria is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on November 25, 1892 in Nice....
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| 506 Marion 506 Marion is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan in February of 1903, and was later named for a cousin of his. The asteroid is designated as a C-type asteroid with a size of approximately .-References:...
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| 365 Corduba 365 Corduba is a very large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 21, 1893 in Nice....
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253 Mathilde253 Mathilde is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa in 1885. It has a relatively elliptical orbit that requires more than four years to circle the Sun. This asteroid has an unusually slow rate of rotation, requiring 17.4 days to complete a 360° revolution about its axis... $ |
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| 36 Atalante 36 Atalante is a large, dark main belt asteroid.It was discovered by H. Goldschmidt on October 5, 1855 and named after the Greek mythological heroine Atalanta .-References:...
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| 164 Eva 164 Eva is a large and very dark Main belt asteroid. It is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous chondritic materials.It has a somewhat irregular orbit.It was discovered by the brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on July 12, 1876....
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| 98 Ianthe 98 Ianthe is a large main belt asteroid. It is very dark and is composed of carbonates. It was one of the numerous discoveries by C. H. F. Peters, who found it on April 18, 1868 from Clinton, New York.-References:...
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35 Leukothea35 Leukothea is a large, dark main belt asteroid.It was discovered by R. Luther on April 19, 1855 and named after Leukothea, a sea goddess in Greek mythology.-References:...
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| 240 Vanadis 240 Vanadis is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. This very dark asteroid is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material.It was discovered by A...
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| 221 Eos 221 Eos is a rather large main belt asteroid. It is classified as a K-type asteroid.The extensive Eos asteroid family is named after it.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on January 18, 1882 in Vienna and was named after Eos, Greek goddess of dawn....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}K-type K-type asteroids are relatively uncommon asteroids with a moderately reddish spectrum shortwards of 0.75 μm, and a slight bluish trend longwards of this. They have a low albedo. Their spectrum resembles that of CV and CO meteorites....
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Trans-Neptunian objectA trans-Neptunian object is any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space....
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| 192 Nausikaa 192 Nausikaa is a large main belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 17, 1879. The name derives from Nausicaä, a princess in Homer's Odyssey....
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51.7 |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 63 Ausonia 63 Ausonia is a large Main-belt Asteroid. It was discovered by A. de Gasparis on February 10, 1861. 'Ausonia' is an archaic/poetic alternative name for Italy.Based on its lightcurve, a small satellite has been suggested -References:...
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51.57 |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 570 Kythera -External links:*...
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| 233 Asterope 233 Asterope is a quite large Main belt asteroid. It is a rare T-type asteroid and has relatively dark surface.It was discovered by A. Borrelly on May 11, 1883 in Marseilles, France.The asteroid was named after Asterope , one of the Pleiades....
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51.39 |
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Main belt asteroid{{mdash}}T-type T-type asteroids are rare inner-belt asteroids of unknown composition with dark, featureless and moderately red spectra, and a moderate absorption feature shortwards of 0.85 µm. No direct meteorite analog has been found to date. Thought to be anhydrous, they are believed to be related to P-types or...
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| 4063 Euforbo 4063 Euforbo is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on February 01, 1989 by Oss. San Vittore at Bologna.- External links :*...
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are... {{mdash}}Jupiter Trojan |
| 175 Andromache 175 Andromache is a large and primitive main belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. C. Watson on October 1, 1877 and named after Andromache, wife of Hector during the Trojan War....
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50.585 |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 191 Kolga 191 Kolga is a large and extremely dark Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 30, 1878 in Clinton, New York. It is named after Kolga, the daughter of Aeger in Norse mythology....
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50.515 |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 387 Aquitania 387 Aquitania is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by F. Courty on March 5, 1894 in Bordeaux. It was second of his two asteroid discoveries. The first was 384 Burdigala.-External links:...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 522 Helga 522 Helga is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}Cybele Cybele asteroids are a group of asteroids in the main belt with a mean orbital radius between 3.27 AU and 3.7 AU, an eccentricity less than 0.3, and an inclination less than 25°....
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| 663 Gerlinde -External links:*...
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50.44 |
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 626 Notburga -External links:*...
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 42 Isis 42 Isis is a large main belt asteroid. Isis was discovered by N. R. Pogson on May 23, 1856. It was his first asteroid discovery. It is named after Isis, the classical name of an Egyptian goddess.-External links:* from JPL /...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 30 Urania 30 Urania is a large Main belt asteroid.Urania was discovered by J. R. Hind on July 22, 1854. It was his last asteroid discovery. It is named after Urania, the Greek Muse of astrology.-External links:* from JPL /...
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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Examples of objects between 50 km and 20 km in radius
There are easily tens of thousands of objects 50 km in radius or smaller{{Clarify|date=October 2009}}, but only a fraction have been explored. The number of digits is not an endorsement of significant figuresThe significant figures of a number are those digits that carry meaning contributing to its precision...
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| 50 Virginia 50 Virginia is a large, very dark Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by J. Ferguson on October 4, 1857. R. Luther found it independently on October 19, and his discovery was announced first. The reason for Virginia's name is not known... A |
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49.91 |
1000 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 114 Kassandra 114 Kassandra is a large and dark Main belt asteroid. It belongs to the rare class T. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on July 23, 1871, and is named after Cassandra, the prophetess in the tales of the Trojan War. The asteroid is featured in the 2009 film Meteor: Path to Destruction....
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49.86 |
1000 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}T-type T-type asteroids are rare inner-belt asteroids of unknown composition with dark, featureless and moderately red spectra, and a moderate absorption feature shortwards of 0.85 µm. No direct meteorite analog has been found to date. Thought to be anhydrous, they are believed to be related to P-types or...
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| 162 Laurentia 162 Laurentia is a large and dark Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on April 21, 1876 and named after A. Laurent, an amateur astronomer who discovered asteroid 51 Nemausa....
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| 401 Ottilia 401 Ottilia is a large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 16, 1895 in Heidelberg....
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Main-belt asteroid |
ThebeThebe , also known as ', is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet. It was discovered by Stephen P. Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979 while orbiting around Jupiter... A Jupiter XIV |
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49.3 |
430 |
Satellite of Jupiter |
| 148 Gallia 148 Gallia is a large main belt asteroid. It is classified as one of the few R-type asteroids.Gallia was discovered by the brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on August 7, 1875, but the credit for this discovery was given to Prosper. It is named after the Latin name for Gaul .- References :...
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48.88 |
980 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}R-type R-type asteroids are moderately bright, relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids that are spectrally intermediate between the V and A-type asteroids. The spectrum shows distinct olivine and pyroxene features at 1 and 2 micrometres, with a possibility of plagioclase...
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| 404 Arsinoe 404 Arsinoë is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on June 20, 1895 in Nice....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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| 27 Euterpe 27 Euterpe is a large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. R. Hind on November 8, 1853 and named after Euterpe, the Muse of music in Greek mythology.... A |
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930 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}S-type S-type asteroids are of a siliceous composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
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| 26 Proserpina 26 Proserpina is a Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by R. Luther on May 5, 1853.It is named after the Roman goddess Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres and the Queen of the Underworld.-References:...
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48 |
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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773 Irmintraud773 Irmintraud is a minor planet that travels between the planets Mars and Jupiter to orbit the Sun with a prograde motion. Discovered by German astronomer Franz Kaiser at Heidelberg, Germany on December 22, 1913, the planetoid was named for Irmtraud, an old German woman's name that appears...
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47.94 |
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asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are... {{mdash}}D-typeD-type asteroids have a very low albedo and a featureless reddish electromagnetic spectrum. It has been suggested that they have a composition of organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates, possibly with water ice in their interiors...
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| 21 Lutetia 21 Lutetia is a large Main belt asteroid of the M spectral type, about 100 kilometers in diameter. It will be the subject of a flyby by the Rosetta space probe in 2010.The name Lutetia derives from the Latin name for Paris.-Characteristics:... M |
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47.8 |
2570 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}M-type M-type asteroids are asteroids of partially known composition; they are moderately bright . Some, but not all, are made of nickel-iron, either pure or mixed with small amounts of stone. These are thought to be pieces of the metallic core of differentiated asteroids that were fragmented by...
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| 62 Erato 62 Erato is a large and dark, probably carbonaceous main belt asteroid. It is a member of the Themis asteroid family. Erato is the first asteroid to have been credited with co-discoverers, Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Forster, who discovered it on September 14, 1860. It was their first and only...
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47.7 |
910 |
Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}Themis The Themis Asteroid Family is a Hirayama family of asteroids found in the outer portion of the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. At a mean distance of 3.13 AU from the Sun, it is one of the more populous asteroid families. It consists of a well-defined core of larger...
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| 345 Tercidina 345 Tercidina is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on November 23, 1892 in Nice.-Size:Via asteroid occultations:...
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47.06 |
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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JulietJuliet is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 1986-01-03, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 2. It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet... A |
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46.8 |
560 |
Satellite of Uranus |
| 58 Concordia 58 Concordia is a quite large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid, so its surface is very dark and it is likely carbonaceous in composition. It was discovered by R. Luther on March 24, 1860. He named it after Concordia, the Roman goddess of harmony.-References:...
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46.72 |
850 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 229 Adelinda 229 Adelinda is a large, dark outer Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material.It is part of the Cybele asteroid group and probably in 4:7 orbital resonance with planet Jupiter....
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Main-belt asteroid{{mdash}}C-type thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a C-type asteroidC-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. They are the most common variety forming around 75% of known asteroids, and an even higher percentage in the outer part of the belt beyond 2.7 AU, which is dominated by this asteroid type...
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NixNix is a natural satellite of Pluto. It was discovered along with Hydra in June 2005 by the Hubble Space Telescope Pluto Companion Search Team, composed of Hal A. Weaver, S. Alan Stern, Max J. Mutchler, Andrew J. Steffl, Marc W. Buie, William J. Merline, John R. Spencer, Eliot F. Young, and Leslie A...
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70 |
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| 103 Hera 103 Hera is a large main belt asteroid. It has a silicate surface composition. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on September 7, 1868 and named after Hera, queen of the gods in Greek mythology....
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45.6 |
790 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 17 Thetis 17 Thetis is a large Main belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid, therefore giving it a relatively bright silicate surface.It was discovered by R. Luther on April 17, 1852. It was his first asteroid discovery. Its name comes from Thetis, the mother of Achilles in Greek mythology.One Thetidian...
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45 |
1200 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 143 Adria 143 Adria is a fairly large main belt asteroid. This dark-coloured asteroid has probably a primitive carbonaceous chondritic composition.It was discovered by J. Palisa on February 23, 1875 at Pula and named after the Adriatic Sea, on the coast of which the discovery was made.One occultation by...
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44.965 |
760 |
Main-belt asteroid |
| 109 Felicitas 109 Felicitas is a dark and fairly large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 9, 1869 and named after Felicitas, the Roman goddess of success. The only observed stellar occultation by Felicitas is one from Japan ....
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44.7 |
750 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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| 100 Hekate 100 Hekate is a large Main belt asteroid. It orbits in the same region of space as the Hygiea asteroid family, however it is actually an unrelated interloper. Its albedo of 0.19 is too high, and it is of the wrong spectral class to be part of the dark carbonaceous Hygiea family.Hekate was the...
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44.5 |
1000 |
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
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90 Antiope90 Antiope is an asteroid discovered on October 1, 1866 by Robert Luther. The 90th asteroid to be discovered, it is nam | | |