List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2284

588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on February 22 1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the trojan asteroids to be discovered and is named […]

Atlas is an inner satellite of Saturn.Atlas was discovered by Richard Terrile in 1980 (some time before November 12) from Voyager photos and was designated S/1980 S 28. In 1983 […]

Titan (or Saturn VI) is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only natural satellite known to have a dense atmosphere and the only object other than Earth for […]

243 Ida (/ˈaɪdə/ EYE-də) is an asteroid in the Koronis family of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Johann Palisa and named after a nymph […]

Pallas minor-planet designation 2 Pallas is the second asteroid to have been discovered (after Ceres) and one of the largest in the Solar System. It is estimated to comprise 7% […]

Amalthea (/æməlˈθiːə/ am-əl-THEE-ə; Greek: Αμάλθεια) is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet. It was discovered on September 9 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard and […]

16 Psyche is one of the ten most massive main-belt asteroids. It is over 200 kilometers in diameter and contains a little less than 1% of the mass of the […]

253 Mathilde /məˈtɪldə/ is a main-belt asteroid about 50 km in diameter that was discovered by Johann Palisa in 1885. It has a relatively elliptical orbit that requires more than […]

4179 Toutatis (/tuːˈtɑːtɨs/ too-TAH-tis) is an Apollo Alinda and Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3:1 resonance with the planet Jupiter a 1:4 resonance with the planet […]

3753 Cruithne (/kruːˈiːnjə/ or /ˈkrʊnjə/) is an Aten asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth making it a co-orbital object. It is a minor planet […]