List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 1170

2004 FH is a near-Earth asteroid that was discovered on March 15 2004 by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey. The object is roughly 30 metres in diameter and passed just […]

(15760) 1992 QB1 also written (15760) 1992 QB1 was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon. It was discovered in 1992 by David C. Jewitt and […]

(35396) 1997 XF11 (also written (35396) 1997 XF11) is a near-Earth and Mars-crosser asteroid which 3 months after its discovery on December 6 1997 by James V. Scotti of the […]

90377 Sedna is a large planetoid in the outer reaches of the Solar System that was as of 2012 about three times as far from the Sun as Neptune. Spectroscopy […]

1998 KY26 (also written 1998 KY26) is a small near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered on June 2 1998 by Spacewatch and observed until June 8 when it passed 800000 kilometers […]

2063 Bacchus (/ˈbækəs/ BAK-əs) is an Apollo asteroid and Venus- and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered on April 24 1977 by Charles T. Kowal at the Palomar Observatory. In March […]

The asteroid 1620 Geographos /dʒiːoʊˈɡræfɒs/ was discovered on September 14 1951 at the Palomar Observatory by Albert George Wilson and Rudolph Minkowski. It was originally given the provisional designation 1951 […]

944 Hidalgo (/hɨˈdælɡoʊ/ hi-DAL-goh) is a small Solar System body with a semi-major axis beyond Jupiter’s and an orbital period of 13.77 years. This makes it a centaur the first […]

Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko officially designated 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is a comet with a current orbital period of 6.45 years. It will next come to perihelion on 13 August 2015. Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko is the […]

90482 Orcus is a planetoid in the Kuiper belt with a large moon Vanth. It was discovered on February 17 2004 by Michael Brown of Caltech Chad Trujillo of the […]