List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 1945

9403 Sanduleak is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the American astronomer Nicholas Sanduleak.

1995 GJ with an inclination of 22.9° may be the first cubewano (classical KBO) discovered to have an inclination greater than 20 degrees. Most cubewanos have inclinations of less than […]

1180 Rita is a main belt asteroid with a diameter of 97 km. It possesses a 0.159614 eccentricity of and an orbital period of 2 915.88 days (7.99 years).Rita has […]

V391 Pegasi also catalogued as HS 2201+2610 is a blue-white subdwarf star approximately 4570 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus. The star is classified as an extreme horizontal branch […]

Gliese 176 is a red dwarf in the constellation of Taurus. Based upon parallax measurements from the Hipparcos mission it is located approximately 30 light-years away. The star is orbited […]

SWIFT J1756.9-2508 is a millisecond pulsar with a rotation frequency of 182 Hz (period of 5.5 ms). It was discovered in 2007 by the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer and found […]

21714 Geoffreywoo (1999 RX109) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on September 8 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro New Mexico.The asteroid is named after Geoffrey […]

Tau Orionis (τ Ori τ Orionis) is a star in the constellation Orion.This star along with β Eri λ Eri and ψ Eri were Al Kursiyy al Jauzah the Chair […]

The Adeona or Adeonian family is an asteroid family that formed from the parent body 145 Adeona. There are an estimated 1000 Adeonian asteroids. Based upon simulation studies this family […]

LHS 288 (Luyten 143-23) is a red dwarf star the closest star to our Sun in the constellation Carina at a distance of 15.6 light years. It is far too […]