List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 1989

1056 Azalea is a main-belt asteroid discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on January 31 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 QD. It is named after the Azalea genus of flowering […]

4150 Starr is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered on August 31 1984 by Brian A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It […]

HD 69830 c is an exoplanet orbiting HD 69830. It is the second-closest planet in its system and likely to be a rocky planet not a gas giant. If it […]

1661 Granule (A916 FA) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on March 31 1916 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg.It was named after Gall’s granule a feature of lymphocytes discovered by Edward […]

1116 Catriona is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Cyril Jackson on April 5 1929 at Johannesburg South Africa. Its provisional designation was 1929 GD. […]

(208996) 2003 AZ84 also written as 2003 AZ84 is a plutino like Pluto in a 2:3 resonance with Neptune. Light-curve-amplitude analysis shows only small deviations which suggests that it is […]

4354 Euclides is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory. It is named after the Greek mathematician […]

11174 Carandrews (1998 FR67) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on March 20 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro New Mexico.It was named after Carolyn Andrews […]

HH-47 is a Herbig-Haro Object; a young star around 1400 light-years from our Sun that is ejecting material at tremendous speed (up to a million kilometres per hour) into its […]

Delta Ceti (δ Ceti δ Cet) is a Class B2 fourth-magnitude star in the constellation Cetus.