List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 1991

Mu Leporis (μ Lep μ Lep) is a star in the southern constellation of Lepus. The apparent visual magnitude is 3.259 making the star visible to the naked eye at […]

Epsilon Crucis (ε Cru ε Crucis) is a Class K3III fourth-magnitude star in the constellation Crux. It is sometimes called Intrometida (intrusive) in Portuguese. This star is an orange giant […]

5011 Ptah is a highly eccentric Mars crossing and Apollo asteroid discovered in 1960 and named after an Egyptian god Ptah.It passes within 30 Gm (0.2 AU) of Earth 15 […]

3103 Eger is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid that was discovered in 1982 by Miklós Lovas. It was named after the city of Eger Hungary. It makes eight approaches to […]

118401 LINEAR (provisional designation 1999 RE70) is an asteroid and main-belt comet (176P/LINEAR) that was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro New Mexico on […]

2907 Nekrasov is an asteroid discovered by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh on October 3 1975. Its provisional designation was 1975 TT2. Nekrasov has an absolute magnitude of 11.50 and is thus […]

2114 Wallenquist is the name of an asteroid which was discovered 1976 April 19 at Mount Stromlo Observatory by C.-I. Lagerkvist. It is named in honor of Åke A. E. […]

In stellar classification a late-type star is a star of class K or class M. The term was coined in the early 20th century when there was a belief that […]

4037 Ikeya is a 10 km asteroid named after a Japanese amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya. It was discovered in 1982 by K. Suzuki and T.Urata.

51829 Williemccool (2001 OD41) is an asteroid named for astronaut Willie McCool who was killed in the STS-107 (Columbia) space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1 2003. 51829 Williemccool was […]