Cybele asteroids are a group of asteroids in the outer main belt with a semi-major axis between 3.27 AU and 3.7 AU an eccentricity less than 0.3 and an inclination […]
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Makemake (dwarf planet)
Makemake (minor-planet designation 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and perhaps the largest Kuiper belt object (KBO) in the classical population with a diameter that is about 2/3 the size […]
Haumea (dwarf planet)
Haumea minor-planet designation 136108 Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune’s orbit. Just one-third the mass of Pluto it was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike […]
1685 Toro
1685 Toro is an Apollo asteroid that orbits the Sun in an 5:8 resonance with Earth and a near 5:13 resonance with Venus. Because of this unusual orbit it is […]
Fornax Dwarf
The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley. He discovered it while he was in South Africa […]
Pisces Dwarf
Pisces Dwarf is an irregular dwarf galaxy that is part of the Local Group. The galaxy is also suspected of being a satellite galaxy of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). Because […]
IC 1613
IC 1613 (also known as Caldwell 51) is an irregular dwarf galaxy in the constellation Cetus near the star 26 Ceti. It was discovered in 1906 by Max Wolf and […]
Delta Crucis
Delta Crucis (δ Cru δ Crucis) is a star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Crux. It is sometimes called Pálida (Pale [one]) in Portuguese. This star is of apparent […]
Draco Dwarf
The Draco Dwarf is a spheroidal galaxy which was discovered by Albert George Wilson of Lowell Observatory in 1954 on photographic plates of the National Geographic Society’s Palomar Observatory Sky […]
Carina Dwarf
The Carina Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf galaxy in the Carina constellation. It was discovered in 1977 with the UK Schmidt Telescope by Cannon et al. The Carina Dwarf is […]