List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 1056

30564 Olomouc (Czech: [ˈolomoʊ̯ts]) is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Petr Pravec on July 28 2001 at Ondřejov Observatory and was named after Olomouc a city in […]

1840 Hus (provisional designation 1971 UY) is a main belt asteroid discovered in 1971 by the Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek. It is named after Jan Hus the fifteenth century Bohemian […]

1834 Palach is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 22 1969 by Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory West Germany. It was named in memory of the Czech anti-Soviet […]

3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars crosser discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century […]

(55637) 2002 UX25 is a Spitzer dwarf-planet candidate that orbits the Sun in the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune. Its orbit takes roughly 280 years and it has one known moon. […]

1865 Cerberus is an Apollo and a Mars crosser asteroid discovered in 1971 by Luboš Kohoutek and named in 1974Cerberus passes within 30 Gm (Gigameters) of the Earth 7 times […]

1863 Antinous is an Apollo and Mars crosser asteroid discovered in 1948 by Carl A. Wirtanen. It was named after Antinous of Greek mythology.In the 20th century Antinous passed within […]

5335 Damocles (/ˈdæməkliːz/ DAM-ə-kleez) is the archetype of the Damocloids asteroids that are inactive nuclei of the Halley Family and long-period comets. It was discovered in 1991 and named after […]

2002 VE68 also written 2002 VE68 is a temporary quasi-satellite of Venus. It was the first quasi-satellite to be discovered around a major planet in the Solar System. In a […]

(3360) Syrinx (originally designated 1981 VA) is an Apollo and Mars crosser asteroid discovered in 1981. It approaches Earth to within 40 Gm three times in the 21st century: 33 […]