List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 1055

7066 Nessus (/ˈnɛsəs/; from Greek: Νέσσος) is a centaur (a type of icy minor planet) that was discovered by David L. Rabinowitz working with Spacewatch at Kitt Peak on 26 […]

(84522) 2002 TC302 is a red 2:5 resonant trans-Neptunian object discovered on October 9 2002 by Mike Brown’s team at the Palomar Observatory.

9793 Torvalds is an asteroid discovered on January 16 1996 by Spacewatch.The asteroid is named after Linus Torvalds a Finnish-American software engineer best known for initiating the development of the […]

(48639) 1995 TL8 (also written (48639) 1995 TL8) is a classical Kuiper belt object possessing a relatively large satellite.The assumed diameter of 352 km is derived from an albedo guess […]

1993 RO is a plutino. It was the first plutino discovered after Pluto itself with 1993 RP and (15788) 1993 SB a day and two days later respectively. The discovery […]

(15788) 1993 SB is a trans-Neptunian object of the plutino class. Apart from Pluto it was one of the first such objects discovered (beaten by two days by 1993 RO […]

OGLE-TR-56b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 1500 parsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius orbiting the star OGLE-TR-56. This planet was discovered on November 3 2002 by the OGLE […]

HD 102195 b (also called ET-1) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 102195 in the constellation of Virgo discovered in January 2006. It is the first planet discovered […]

6188 Robertpepin is a Main belt asteroid discovered on September 16 1988. The asteroid was discovered by Schelte J. Bus at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The asteroid […]

7796 Járacimrman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaːratsɪmr̩man]; sometimes spelt Jaracimrman) is an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It belongs to the IIa family of asteroids. It cannot […]