List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 1164

3001 Michelangelo is a small main belt asteroid which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1982. It is named after Michelangelo Buonarroti the Italian renaissance artist. Michelangelo’s closest […]

3325 TARDIS is a main belt asteroid that measures 29.66 km in diameter. It was discovered by Brian A. Skiff in May 1984 at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. […]

3494 Purple Mountain is a small asteroid in the asteroid belt. It is not purple; its unusual name comes from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China where it was rediscovered […]

3552 Don Quixote is an Amor Mars-crossing Jupiter-crossing asteroid. It has a highly inclined comet-like orbit that leads to frequent perturbations by Jupiter measures 18.4 km in diameter and has […]

3568 ASCII is a small main belt asteroid discovered by Marguerite Laugier on October 17 1936.It was named (long after its discovery) in honor of the ASCII character encoding system […]

3834 Zappafrank is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Ladislav Brožek in 1980 at Kleť Observatory. It was named after the late American composer Frank Zappa on July […]

18610 Arthurdent is a small main belt asteroid discovered by Felix Hormuth of Starkenburg Observatory on February 7 1998. It is named after Arthur Dent the bewildered hero of Douglas […]

2309 Mr. Spock (provisional designation: 1971 QX1) is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 16 1971 by James B. Gibson an astronomer specializing in comets asteroids and the Milky […]

2602 Moore is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered in 1982 by Edward L. G. Bowell from the Lowell Observatory’s Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff Arizona. It is […]

3200 Phaethon (/ˈfeɪ.əθɒn/ FAY-ə-thon sometimes incorrectly spelled Phaeton) is an asteroid with an unusual orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid (though there are […]