List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2236

3554 Amun is an M-type Aten asteroid (meaning it crosses Earth’s orbit) and a Venus-crosser. It was discovered on 4 March 1986 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Mount Palomar […]

516 Amherstia was the 8th asteroid discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan and was named after Amherst College his alma mater. Amherstia is a large M-type asteroid with an estimated diameter […]

PSR B1257+12 (PSR 1257+12) is a pulsar located 1000 light years from the Sun. In 1992 two planets were discovered orbiting the pulsar and a third was confirmed in 1994.

PSR B1620-26 is a triple star system located at a distance of 3800 parsecs (12400 light-years) in the globular cluster of Messier 4 (M4 NGC 6121) in the constellation of […]

NGC 404 is a galaxy located about 10 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 and is visible through small telescopes. […]

5261 Eureka is the first asteroid discovered that turned out to be a Mars trojan. It was discovered by David H. Levy and Henry Holt at Palomar Observatory on June […]

Alpha Andromedae (Alpha And α And α Andromedae) which has the traditional names Alpheratz (or Alpherat) and Sirrah (or Sirah) is the brightest star in the constellation of Andromeda. Located […]

1221 Amor is the namesake of the Amor asteroids a group of near-Earth asteroids whose orbits range between those of Earth and Mars. Amors are often Mars-crossers but they are […]

Asteroid 15017 Cuppy a main-belt object previously known as 1998 SS25 was discovered on September 22 1998 by Edward L. G. Bowell of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) Anderson […]

(137924) 2000 BD19 (also written 2000 BD19) is an asteroid with the smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid (0.092 AU—38% of Mercury’s orbital radius). With its high eccentricity not only […]