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    This is a list of slow rotatorsminor planets that have an exceptionally long rotation period. This period, typically given in hours, and sometimes called...
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    circumstances: List of exceptional asteroids (physical properties) List of slow rotators (minor planets) List of fast rotators (minor planets) List of tumblers...
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  • List of named minor planets (numerical) List of exceptional asteroids List of trans-Neptunian objects List of fast rotators (minor planets) List of slow...
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    Rubble pile (category Bodies of the Solar System)
    and migrating outwards. Circumplanetary disk Comet nucleus List of slow rotators (minor planets) Data source, reference: Warner, B.D., Harris, A.W., Pravec...
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  • type of tow truck with a rotating extendible boom List of fast rotators (minor planets) List of slow rotators (minor planets) Rotation (disambiguation)...
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    Potentially slow rotators for minor planets with an insufficiently accurate period (U < 2). back to top This list contains the fastest-rotating minor planets with...
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    fluctuations Earth's rotation periods List of slow rotators (minor planets) List of fast rotators (minor planets) Retrograde motion Rotation (astronomy)...
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  • is a list of tumbling natural satellites (moons) that orbit planets and dwarf planets in the Solar System. back to top List of slow rotators (minor planets)...
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    "dwarf planets", reducing the number of known planets in the Solar System to eight, the same as before Pluto's discovery in 1930. Observations of a stellar...
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    tables list all minor planets and comets that have been visited by robotic spacecraft. A total of 18 minor planets (asteroids, dwarf planets, and Kuiper...
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    eight planets: the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The word planet probably...
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    Gonggong (minor-planet designation: 225088 Gonggong) is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. It has a highly eccentric and...
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    target of the Lucy mission, scheduled for a flyby in April 2028. The assumed D-type asteroid is an exceptionally slow rotator with a rotation period of 466...
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    319 Leona (category Slow rotating minor planets)
    observations of Leona gave a much shorter period between 6 and 15 hours, which demonstrates the intricacy when observing slow rotators, especially those...
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    an elongated, stony asteroid and slow rotator, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo asteroid group, approximately...
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    Solar System (redirect from Outer planets)
    terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars); two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn); and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune). All terrestrial planets have...
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    Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first...
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    Pluto (redirect from Minor Planet Pluto)
    planet to exclude dwarf planets such as Pluto. Many planetary astronomers, however, continue to consider Pluto and other dwarf planets to be planets....
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  • 3353 Jarvis (category Slow rotating minor planets)
    for Jarvis, which is now among the Top 300 slowest rotators known to exist, as most minor planets have spin rates between 2.2 and 24 hours only. The observations...
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    minor planets rather than major planets. With the discovery of Pluto in 1930, most astronomers considered the Solar System to have nine major planets...
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    is a dark D-type asteroid and a slow rotator, due to the 103-hour orbital period of its two components. It is one of five Jupiter trojan asteroids targeted...
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  • 957 Camelia (category Slow rotating minor planets)
    of at least 150±10 hours with an amplitude of more than 0.30 (U=1+). With such a long period, Camelia is a slow rotator. While the slowest rotators have...
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  • (65407) 2002 RP120 (category Slow rotating minor planets)
    rotation period above 100 hours, it is a typical slow rotator. According to the survey of minor-planet albedos of bodies in a comet-like orbit, carried out by...
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    of Arrokoth from December 2018 to January 2019 Solar System portal List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft 132524 APL – Another minor planet...
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    Haumea (redirect from Minor Planet Haumea)
    Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown...
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  • 2010 WG9 (category Slow rotating minor planets)
    gave a rotation period of 263.8 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.14 magnitude (U=2). It belongs to the Top 200 slowest rotators known to exist. It measures...
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    differs from most regular satellites of other planets in that its orbit is closer to the ecliptic plane instead of its primary's (in this case, Earth's)...
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  • 7352 Hypsenor (category Slow rotating minor planets)
    brightness variation of 0.30 magnitude (U=3-). As of 2018, there are only about three dozens known slow rotators with periods longer than that of Hypsenor. The...
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    Korado Korlević (category Discoverers of asteroids)
    20 discoverers of minor planets. As of 2016, he is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 1162 numbered minor planets he made at Višnjan...
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    meteorology, and motion of celestial objects (such as galaxies, planets, etc.) and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth (such as the cosmic...
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