List of articles in "Planet" category - Page 8

WASP-48b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star WASP-48 in the constellation Cygnus. The planet was detected using the transit method by the SuperWASP team which published its discovery in […]

2010 GB174 is a detached object. It never gets closer than 48.5 AU from the Sun (about the outer edge of the Kuiper belt). Its large eccentricity strongly suggests that […]

(285263) 1998 QE2 is a near-Earth asteroid 2.75 kilometers (1.71 mi) in diameter. It was discovered on August 19 1998 by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program located […]

HD 20781 c is a hot Neptune with 14 to 17 Earth masses. It is the outermost planet of orbiting its parent star HD 20781 in about 0.3456 astronomical units […]

2007 EB26 is one of the closest orbiting objects to the Sun. It has the second-smallest semi-major axis (0.55 AU) of any known object orbiting the Sun after Mercury. It […]

HD 113538 c is an exoplanet approximately 51 light years away from earth in the constellation Centaurus. It orbits its star(HD 113538) once every 1657 days placing it in the […]

2012 FC71 also written 2012 FC71 is a small asteroid trapped in a Kozai resonance with the Earth.

2006 JY26 also written 2006 JY26 is a horseshoe companion to the Earth like 3753 Cruithne.

2013 BS45 also written 2013 BS45 is a horseshoe companion to the Earth like 3753 Cruithne. Like Cruithne it does not orbit the Earth and at times it is on […]

HD 20781 b is a hot Neptune with 11 to 13 Earth masses. It is the innermost planet orbiting its parent star HD 20781 at about 0.169 astronomical units.