208 Lacrimosa is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on October 21 1879 in Pola. The name derives from Our Lady of Sorrows a title […]
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207 Hedda
207 Hedda is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It is a C-type asteroid meaning it is primitive in composition and dark in colour.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on October […]
206 Hersilia
206 Hersilia is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 13 1879 in Clinton New York. The asteroid was named after […]
205 Martha
205 Martha is a large Main belt asteroid. It is a dark primitive carbonaceous C-type asteroid.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on October 13 1879 in Pola and was named […]
204 Kallisto
204 Kallisto is a fairly typical although sizeable Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid. Like other asteroids of its type it is light in colour.It was […]
203 Pompeja
203 Pompeja is a quite large main-belt asteroid.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 25 1879 in Clinton New York and named after Pompeii the Roman town […]
202 Chryseïs
202 Chryseïs is a large lightly coloured Main belt asteroid. It is probably composed of silicate rocks.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 11 1879 in Clinton […]
25924 Douglasadams
25924 Douglasadams is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered by LINEAR on February 19 2001 and given the provisional designation 2001 DA42. It was named for novelist […]
S/2004 S 6
S/2004 S 6 is the provisional designation of a dusty object seen orbiting Saturn very close to the F ring. It is not clear whether it is only a transient […]
Polydeuces (moon)
Polydeuces or Saturn XXXIV (34) is a small natural satellite of Saturn that is co-orbital with the moon Dione and librates around its trailing Lagrangian point (L5). Its diameter is […]