List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2244

149 Medusa is a bright-coloured stony main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer J. Perrotin on September 21 1875 and named after the Gorgon Medusa a snake-haired monster in […]

148 Gallia (as Greek Γαλλία) is a large main-belt asteroid that is named after the Latin name for France: Gaul. Gallia was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and […]

145 Adeona is a rather large main-belt asteroid. Its surface is very dark and based upon its classification as a C-type asteroid is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. The […]

Perdita (/ˈpɜrdɨtə/ PUR-di-tə) is an inner satellite of Uranus. Perdita’s discovery was complicated. The first photographs of Perdita were taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 but it was […]

147 Protogeneia is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by the Hungarian astronomer Lipót Schulhof on July 10 1875 from the Vienna Observatory; it was his only asteroid […]

146 Lucina is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on June 8 1875 and named after Lucina the Roman goddess of childbirth. It is large dark and […]

144 Vibilia is a large dark main belt asteroid that was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on June 3 1875 from the observatory at Hamilton College Clinton New York. […]

143 Adria is a fairly large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer J. Palisa on February 23 1875 at Pula and named after the Adriatic Sea on the […]

142 Polana is a very dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on January 28 1875 and named after the city of Pola (now Pula Croatia) home […]

2069 Hubble is a dark-colored main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory on March 29 1955. The asteroid was named after the […]