List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 2

(386454) 2008 XM is an asteroid with a highly eccentric orbit that crosses the orbits of Mercury Venus Earth and Mars. It has the third-smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid […]

(374158) 2004 UL is a Mercury-crosser Venus-crosser Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. It has the second-smallest perihelion of any known asteroid after (137924) 2000 BD19.

(89958) 2002LY45 is an Near-Earth object that is also a Mercury-crosser Venus-crosser and Mars-crosser. It was discovered by the LINEAR program on June 14 2002.

2005 VX3 is a minor planet which has the largest heliocentric semi-major axis and aphelion. It also has the largest orbital eccentricity of any known minor planet with its perihelion […]

2006 HY51 is the asteroid with the third-smallest known perihelion of any known object orbiting the Sun. Its extreme orbital eccentricity brings it within 0.081 AU of the Sun (26% […]

2008 FF5 is the asteroid with the second-smallest known perihelion of any known object orbiting the Sun. Its extreme orbital eccentricity brings it within 0.079 AU of the Sun (26% […]

2005 HC4 is the asteroid with the smallest known perihelion of any known object orbiting the Sun. Its extreme orbital eccentricity brings it within 0.071 AU of the Sun (23% […]

2014 DX110 (also written 2014 DX110) is a near-Earth asteroid roughly 20–40 m (66–131 ft) in diameter that passed less than 1 lunar distance from Earth on 5 March 2014. […]

(192642) 1999 RD32 provisionally known as 1999 RD32 is a near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous object. It was discovered on 8 September 1999 by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) at […]

NASA’s Magellan spacecraft mission discovered that Venus has a geologically young surface with a relatively uniform age of 500±200 Ma (million years). The age of Venus was revealed by the […]