List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 1167

3908 Nyx is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Hans-Emil Schuster on August 6 1980 and is named after Nyx the Greek goddess of the night after […]

1036 Ganymed is the largest near-Earth asteroid at about 32–34 km in diameter. It was discovered by Walter Baade on October 23 1924. It has a very well determined orbit […]

762 Pulcova is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Grigoriy N. Neujmin in 1913 and is named after Pulkovo Observatory near Saint Petersburg. Pulcova is 137 km in diameter […]

511 Davida is a large main-belt C-type asteroid. It was discovered by R. S. Dugan in 1903. It is one of the ten most massive asteroids. It is approximately 270–310 […]

216 Kleopatra /ˌkliːɵˈpætrə/ is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on April 10 1880 from Pula. It is named after Cleopatra the famous queen of […]

(45) Eugenia I Petit-Prince is the larger outer moon of asteroid 45 Eugenia. It was discovered in 1998 by astronomers at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea Hawaii. Initially it […]

1566 Icarus (/ˈɪkərəs/ IK-ə-rəs) is an Apollo asteroid (a subclass of near-Earth asteroid) that at perihelion comes closer to the Sun than Mercury i.e. it is a Mercury-crossing asteroid. It […]

45 Eugenia is a large main-belt asteroid. It is famed as one of the first asteroids to be found to have a moon orbiting it. It is also the second […]

The asteroid 2685 Masursky is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Edward (Ted) Bowell in 1981. It was named after Harold Masursky (1923–1990) a planetary geologist at the U.S. […]

139 Juewa (/dʒuːˈeɪwɑː/ jew-AY-wah) is a very large and dark main belt asteroid. It is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. It was the first asteroid discovered from China.Juewa was […]