List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2187

4368 Pillmore is a large asteroid named after Charles L. (Chuck) Pillmore. The name was assigned by Eugene Shoemaker. [1]

4217 Engelhardt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24 1988 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory. Its provisional designation was 1988 BO2. It is named after the Baltic […]

Asteroid 9491 Thooft is named for 1999 Nobel physics laureate Gerardus ‘t Hooft. The laureate ‘t Hooft has drawn up a constitution for future visitors of the asteroid poking fun […]

Asteroid 9492 Veltman was named for 1999 Nobel physics laureate Martinus J. G. Veltman.

Ursa Major I Dwarf (UMa I dSph) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery by Beth Willman et al. was announced in 2005.Being a small […]

HE1327-2326 discovered in 2005 by Anna Frebel and collaborators was the star with the lowest known iron abundance until SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 was discovered. The star is a member of Population […]

501 Urhixidur is a relatively large (ranked 372nd by IRAS) main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Dr. Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (1863–1932) at the Königstuhl Observatory in Heidelberg […]

945 Barcelona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the Asteroid belt. It was discovered 3 February 1921 from Barcelona by the Catalan astronomer Josep Comas Solá (1868–1937) and […]

GQ Lupi b is a possible extrasolar planet orbiting the star GQ Lupi. Its discovery was announced in April 2005. Along with 2M1207b this was one of the first extrasolar […]

GQ Lupi is a T Tauri variable star approximately 500 light-years away in the constellation of Lupus. The star is young and has about 70% of the Sun’s mass.