List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 1108

481 Emita is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by the Italian astronomer Luigi Carnera on February 12 1902. The meaning of the asteroid’s proper name remains […]

480 Hansa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.This object is the namesake of the Hansa family of 162–839 asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements. Hence they […]

479 Caprera is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

1743 Schmidt (4109 P-L) is a Main-belt asteroid that was discovered on September 24 1960 at Palomar by C.J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld. It was named after Baltic […]

9885 Linux is an asteroid discovered on October 12 1994 by Spacewatch. The asteroid is named after the Linux operating system kernel.

Dioretsa (1999 LD31) is a centaur discovered in 1999 notable for its unusual orbit which is highly eccentric and retrograde. Its name is the word ‘asteroid’ spelled backwards to reflect […]

4349 Tibúrcio is an asteroid. It is the asteroid discovered in the smallest angular distance from the sun ( 535 degree ). It was discovered as 1989LX by Werner Landgraf […]

8256 Shenzhou is an asteroid named after the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft.

1761 Edmondson is a main-belt asteroid discovered March 30 1952 by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn Indiana. It is named for astronomer Frank K. Edmondson […]

21062 Yangliwei is an asteroid named after Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei. It was discovered in 1991 and named in 2005.