List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2049

7796 Járacimrman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaːratsɪmr̩man]; sometimes spelt Jaracimrman) is an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It belongs to the IIa family of asteroids. It cannot […]

34 Boötis or W Boötis is a star in the constellation Boötes.34 Boötis is a M-type red giant with a mean apparent magnitude of +4.80. It is approximately 890 light […]

Cygnus X-3 is one of the stronger binary X-ray sources in the sky. Classified as a microquasar it is believed to be a compact object in a binary system which […]

OTS 44 is a brown dwarf located about 550 light-years (170 pc) away in constellation Chamaeleon. It is among the smallest known brown dwarfs with about 15 times the mass […]

Elbsteel is an asteroid. It was recorded on 12 November 1990 by Duncan Steel at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia and named after his son Elliot Lewis Barnaby Otto Lewis […]

30564 Olomouc (Czech: [ˈolomoʊ̯ts]) is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Petr Pravec on July 28 2001 at Ondřejov Observatory and was named after Olomouc a city in […]

5100 Pasachoff is an asteroid. It was named after Professor Jay Pasachoff in 1993 by its discoverer Edward L. G. Bowell (1985 GW).

1840 Hus (provisional designation 1971 UY) is a main belt asteroid discovered in 1971 by the Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek. It is named after Jan Hus the fifteenth century Bohemian […]

1834 Palach is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 22 1969 by Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory West Germany. It was named in memory of the Czech anti-Soviet […]

3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars crosser discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century […]