300 '95 '98 '02 '06 '10 '14 '18 Observations of minor planets as well as comets and natural satellites of the Solar System are made by astronomical observatories...
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2021. Archived from the original on October 12, 2021. "Observations of small Solar-System bodies. December 10, 2020". HohmannTransfer.com. Archived from...
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astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets....
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list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small Solar System...
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many of the larger small Solar System bodies (which includes the asteroids), all named natural satellites, and a number of smaller objects of historical...
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A contact binary is a small Solar System body, such as a minor planet or comet, that is composed of two bodies that have gravitated toward each other until...
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number of small Solar System bodies, such as asteroids, comets, centaurs, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust clouds. Some of these bodies are in the...
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a collection of lists of asteroids of the Solar System that are exceptional in some way, such as their size or orbit. For the purposes of this article...
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flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed. This model, known as the nebular...
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observations of small Solar System bodies. For a description of the tables below, see § Notes. back to top back to top The discovery table consist of...
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and planets was investigated with spectroscopy. Observations of Solar System bodies with other types of electromagnetic radiation became possible with...
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The JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB) is an astronomy database about small Solar System bodies. It is maintained by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA...
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Of the Solar System's eight planets and its nine most likely dwarf planets, six planets and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 430...
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2004 KV18 (category JPL Small-Body Database ID same as Wikidata)
Of Neptune Trojans". Minor Planet Center. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017. "2004 KV18". The Tracking News – Observations of small Solar-System bodies...
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and small Solar System bodies. Of the objects that orbit the Sun indirectly, the moons, two are larger than the smallest planet, Mercury. Sun ☉ Solar wind...
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This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System. This list includes peaks on all celestial bodies where significant mountains have been detected...
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The following is a list of minor planets in ascending numerical order. Minor planets are small bodies in the Solar System: asteroids, distant objects...
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{a}{a_{P}}}(1-e^{2})}}} . Two families of small Solar System bodies lie outside the scattering zones of the giant planets and are remnants of the primordial protoplanetary...
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Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion...
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habitability in the Solar System is the study that searches the possible existence of past or present extraterrestrial life in those celestial bodies. As exoplanets...
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The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object...
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observatory code (C55) in order to report its astrometric observations of small Solar System bodies to the Minor Planet Center. In 2013 the alternative NEOKepler...
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planets and the Sun. This list does not include small Solar System bodies, but it does include a sample of possible planetary-mass objects whose shapes have...
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2060 Chiron (redirect from Ring system of (2060) Chiron)
2060 Chiron is a ringed small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal...
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Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space. The Solar System belts' size and placement...
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being in hydrostatic equilibrium, and notes six bodies in particular: Ceres in the inner Solar System and five in the trans-Neptunian region: Pluto, Eris...
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in the study of the physical and chemical processes of the Earth's atmosphere, the study of planets and small bodies of the Solar System (atmospheres...
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ʻOumuamua (redirect from 1I (small solar system body))
the first confirmed interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Robert Weryk using...
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Exoplanet (redirect from Planets of other solar systems)
exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and the first...
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Galilean moons (redirect from Discovery of the Galilean moons)
the Solar System and surpasses the planet Mercury in size (though not mass). Callisto is only slightly smaller than Mercury in size; the smaller ones...
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