• A Jupiter-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Jupiter. Jupiter trojans can be inner grazers (105), outer grazers (52), co-orbitals (183)...
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    FD1 List of Mercury-crossing minor planets List of Earth-crossing minor planets List of Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets...
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    minor planets List of Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of Saturn-crossing minor planets List of Uranus-crossing minor...
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  • List of Earth-crossing minor planets List of Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of Saturn-crossing minor planets...
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    minor planets List of Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of Uranus-crossing minor planets List of Neptune-crossing minor...
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    minor planets List of Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of Saturn-crossing minor planets List of Neptune-crossing minor...
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    Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of Saturn-crossing minor planets List of Uranus-crossing minor planets List of Neptune-crossing...
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    EU1 List of Mercury-crossing minor planets List of Venus-crossing minor planets List of Earth-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets...
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    objects and dwarf planets. The catalog consists of hundreds of pages, each containing 1,000 minor planets. Every year, the Minor Planet Center, which operates...
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    Shoemaker–Levy 9 List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of objects at Lagrangian...
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    List of Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of Saturn-crossing minor planets List of Uranus-crossing minor planets List...
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    minor planets Jupiter Rings of Jupiter Complete list of Jupiter's natural satellites Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Jupiter trojans Jupiter-crossing minor planets...
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    Earth-crossing minor planets List of Mars-crossing minor planets List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets List of Saturn-crossing minor planets List of Uranus-crossing...
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    Its name derives from that of Jupiter, the chief deity of ancient Roman religion. Jupiter was the first of the sun's planets to form, and its inward migration...
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  • This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth...
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  • stars which seem still in contrast to the planets). Visible to humans on Earth there are seven classical planets (the seven luminaries). They are from brightest...
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    January 2022[update], there are 457 minor planets known or suspected to have moons. Discoveries of minor-planet moons (and binary objects, in general) are...
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    eight planets by the most restrictive definition of the term: the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn...
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    Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets. Centaurs generally have unstable orbits because of this; almost...
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  • From the perspective of observers on Earth, transits of the Sun and Moon by minor planets are very rare, as the minor planets orbiting between the Earth...
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    Solar System (redirect from Outer planets)
    are the eight planets. In order from the Sun, they are four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars); two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn);...
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    planets, Uranus and Neptune, have been discovered in the Solar System during recorded history. However, many minor planets, including dwarf planets such...
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    Planetary-mass moon List of possible dwarf planets List of minor planets (numbered) and List of unnumbered minor planets List of trans-Neptunian objects...
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  • Kenneth J. Lawrence (category Discoverers of asteroids)
    American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. Credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 32 numbered asteroids between 1989 and...
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  • conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names....
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  • applied, because it was observed to crash into Jupiter). Some comets were first spotted as minor planets, and received a temporary designation accordingly...
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  • such "minor planets" continued to be considered planets for perhaps another century. Shortly after Giuseppe Piazzi's discovery of Ceres, a group of astronomers...
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  • conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names....
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    between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The identified...
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  • conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names....
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