List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 1043

2340 Hathor is an asteroid that was discovered on October 22 1976 by C.T. Kowal at Palomar. Like the other objects of Aten type Hathor is named for an Egyptian […]

(119070) 2001 KP77 (also written (119070) 2001 KP77) is a 4:7 resonant trans-Neptunian object (TNO) located in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on May 23 2001 by Marc W. […]

(1054) Forsytia is an asteroid discovered on 20 November 1925 by German astronomer Karl William Reinmuth in Heidelberg. Its provisional designation was 1925 WD.It is named after the Forsythia genus […]

2002 TD66 (also written 2002 TD66) is a near-Earth asteroid discovered on October 5 2002 by the LINEAR project. It was announced on October 7 2002 and appeared later that […]

5011 Ptah is a highly eccentric Mars crossing and Apollo asteroid discovered in 1960 and named after an Egyptian god Ptah.It passes within 30 Gm (0.2 AU) of Earth 15 […]

3103 Eger is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid that was discovered in 1982 by Miklós Lovas. It was named after the city of Eger Hungary. It makes eight approaches to […]

118401 LINEAR (provisional designation 1999 RE70) is an asteroid and main-belt comet (176P/LINEAR) that was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro New Mexico on […]

51829 Williemccool (2001 OD41) is an asteroid named for astronaut Willie McCool who was killed in the STS-107 (Columbia) space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1 2003. 51829 Williemccool was […]

51828 Ilanramon (2001 OU39) is an asteroid named for astronaut Ilan Ramon who was killed in the STS-107 (Columbia) space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1 2003. 51828 Ilanramon was […]

51827 Laurelclark (2001 OH38) is an asteroid named for astronaut Laurel Clark who was killed in the STS-107 (Columbia) space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1 2003. 51827 Laurelclark was […]