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85 relations: Amalthea (moon), ASCII, Asteroid, Astronomical naming conventions, Astronomical object, Astronomische Nachrichten, Belgrade Observatory, C/2006 P1, Centaur (minor planet), Center of Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Geophysics, Ceres (dwarf planet), Comet, Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Galilean moons, Galileo Galilei, Greek alphabet, Half-month, Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory, Information Age, Io (moon), Iso-Heikkilä Observatory, Johann Franz Encke, John E. Mellish, Jupiter, La Plata Astronomical Observatory, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, List of hyperbolic comets, List of minor planets: 6001–7000, List of near-parabolic comets, List of periodic comets, Lowell Observatory, Minor planet, Minor Planet Center, Minor planet designation, Minor-planet moon, Mount Wilson Observatory, Naiad (moon), Naming of moons, Palomar–Leiden survey, Perihelion and aphelion, Phoebe (moon), Pluto, Purple Mountain Observatory, Ring system, Roman numerals, Romulus (moon), Royal Observatory of Belgium, Saturn, Simeiz Observatory, ..., Simon Marius, Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons, Trans-Neptunian object, Union Observatory, X/1106 C1, Yerkes Observatory, 100000 Astronautica, 118401 LINEAR, 153P/Ikeya–Zhang, 16 Psyche, 163 Erigone, 163693 Atira, 17 Thetis, 2 Pallas, 2014 AA, 20936 Nemrut Dagi, 26 Proserpina, 28 Bellona, 29 Amphitrite, 3 Juno, 333 Badenia, 342843 Davidbowie, 35 Leukothea, 37 Fides, 378 Holmia, 379 Huenna, 4 Vesta, 420356 Praamzius, 4P/Faye, 6344 P-L, 830 Petropolitana, 831 Stateira, 87 Sylvia, 886 Washingtonia, 90377 Sedna. Expand index (35 more) »
Amalthea (moon)
Amalthea (Ἀμάλθεια) is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet.
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ASCII
ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
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Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
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Astronomical naming conventions
In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few hundred stars and the most easily visible planets had names.
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Astronomical object
An astronomical object or celestial object is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe.
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Astronomische Nachrichten
Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes), one of the first international journals in the field of astronomy, was founded in 1821 by the German astronomer Heinrich Christian Schumacher.
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Belgrade Observatory
Belgrade Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in the eastern part of Belgrade, Serbia, in the natural environment of Zvezdara Forest.
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C/2006 P1
Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on 7 August 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught using the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.
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Centaur (minor planet)
Centaurs are small solar system bodies with a semi-major axis between those of the outer planets.
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Center of Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Geophysics
The Algiers Observatory was built in the late 19th century in the Algiers suburb of Bouzaréah, Algeria, North Africa.
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Ceres (dwarf planet)
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, slightly closer to Mars' orbit.
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Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
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Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects.
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Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO, obs. code: 095) is located at Nauchnij research campus, near the Central Crimean city of Bakhchysarai, on the Crimean peninsula.
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Galilean moons
The Galilean moons are the four largest moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564Drake (1978, p. 1). The date of Galileo's birth is given according to the Julian calendar, which was then in force throughout Christendom. In 1582 it was replaced in Italy and several other Catholic countries with the Gregorian calendar. Unless otherwise indicated, dates in this article are given according to the Gregorian calendar. – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
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Half-month
A half-month is a unit of time typically used in astronomy.
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Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl) is a historic astronomical observatory located near the summit of the Königstuhl hill in the city of Heidelberg in Germany.
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Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a 21st century period in human history characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.
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Io (moon)
Io (Jupiter I) is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.
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Iso-Heikkilä Observatory
Iso-Heikkilä Observatory (Iso-Heikkilän tähtitorni) is an amateur astronomical observatory used by a local amateur astronomical association, Turun Ursa ry in the Iso-Heikkilä district of Turku, Finland.
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Johann Franz Encke
Johann Franz Encke (23 September 1791 – 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer.
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John E. Mellish
John Edward Mellish (12 January 1886 – 13 July 1970, Medford, Oregon) was an American amateur astronomer and telescope builder.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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La Plata Astronomical Observatory
The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project is a collaboration of the United States Air Force, NASA, and the MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects.
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List of hyperbolic comets
This is a list of parabolic and hyperbolic comets in the Solar System.
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List of minor planets: 6001–7000
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List of near-parabolic comets
The following is a list of comets with a very high eccentricity (generally 0.99 or higher) and a period of over 1,000 years that don't quite have a high enough velocity to escape the Solar System.
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List of periodic comets
Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets having orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage (e.g. 153P/Ikeya–Zhang).
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Lowell Observatory
Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.
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Minor planet
A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun (or more broadly, any star with a planetary system) that is neither a planet nor exclusively classified as a comet.
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Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data for minor planets (such as asteroids and comets), calculating their orbits and publishing this information via the Minor Planet Circulars.
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Minor planet designation
A formal minor planet designation is, in its final form, a number–name combination given to a minor planet (asteroid, centaur, trans-Neptunian object and dwarf planet but not comet).
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Minor-planet moon
A minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite.
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Mount Wilson Observatory
The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Naiad (moon)
Naiad (or; Ναϊάδ-ες), also known as Neptune III, is the innermost satellite of Neptune, named after the Naiads of Greek legend.
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Naming of moons
The naming of moons has been the responsibility of the International Astronomical Union's committee for Planetary System Nomenclature since 1973.
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Palomar–Leiden survey
The Palomar–Leiden survey (PLS) was a successful astronomical survey to study faint minor planets in a collaboration between the U.S Palomar Observatory and the Dutch Leiden Observatory, and resulted in the discovery of thousands of asteroids, including many Jupiter trojans.
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Perihelion and aphelion
The perihelion of any orbit of a celestial body about the Sun is the point where the body comes nearest to the Sun.
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Phoebe (moon)
Phoebe (Greek: Φοίβη Phoíbē) is an irregular satellite of Saturn with a mean diameter of 213 km.
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Pluto
Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune.
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Purple Mountain Observatory
The Purple Mountain Observatory, also known as Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the Purple Mountain in the west of Nanjing, China.
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Ring system
A ring system is a disc or ring orbiting an astronomical object that is composed of solid material such as dust and moonlets, and is a common component of satellite systems around giant planets.
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Roman numerals
The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.
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Romulus (moon)
Romulus is the outer and larger moon of the main-belt asteroid 87 Sylvia, not to be confused with the directly Sun-orbiting asteroid 10386 Romulus.
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Royal Observatory of Belgium
The Royal Observatory of Belgium (Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België; Observatoire Royal de Belgique), has been situated in Uccle (Ukkel in Dutch) since 1890.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
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Simeiz Observatory
Simeiz Observatory (also spelled "Simeis" or "Simeïs") was an astronomy research observatory until the mid-1950s.
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Simon Marius
Simon Marius (Latinized from German Simon Mayr; January 20, 1573 – January 5, 1625) was a German astronomer.
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Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history.
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Trans-Neptunian object
A trans-Neptunian object (TNO, also written transneptunian object) is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance (semi-major axis) than Neptune, 30 astronomical units (AU).
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Union Observatory
Union Observatory also known as Johannesburg Observatory (078) is a defunct astronomical observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa that was operated between 1903 and 1971.
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X/1106 C1
X/1106 C1, also known as the Great Comet of 1106, was a great comet that appeared on 2 February 1106, and was observed across the world from the beginning of February through to mid-March.
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Yerkes Observatory
Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin operated by the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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100000 Astronautica
100000 Astronautica, provisionally designated, is a Hungaria asteroid from the innermost region of the asteroid belt.
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118401 LINEAR
118401 LINEAR, provisional designation, is an asteroid and main-belt comet (176P/LINEAR) that was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico on September 7, 1999.
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153P/Ikeya–Zhang
Comet Ikeya–Zhang (Chinese, Japanese: 池谷-張彗星, officially designated 153P/Ikeya–Zhang) is a comet discovered independently by two astronomers from Japan and China in 2002.
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16 Psyche
16 Psyche is one of the ten most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt.
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163 Erigone
163 Erigone is an asteroid from the asteroid belt and the namesake of the Erigone family of asteroids that share similar orbital elements and properties.
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163693 Atira
163693 Atira, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid, dwelling in the interior of Earth's orbit.
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17 Thetis
17 Thetis, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 90 kilometers in diameter.
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2 Pallas
Pallas, minor-planet designation 2 Pallas, is the second asteroid to have been discovered (after Ceres), and is one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System.
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2014 AA
2014 AA was a small Apollo near-Earth asteroid roughly 2–4 meters in diameter that struck Earth on 2 January 2014.
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20936 Nemrut Dagi
20936 Nemrut Dagi, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3.5 kilometers in diameter.
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26 Proserpina
26 Proserpina is a main-belt asteroid discovered by R. Luther on May 5, 1853.
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28 Bellona
28 Bellona is a large main-belt asteroid.
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29 Amphitrite
29 Amphitrite is one of the largest S-type asteroids, approximately in diameter, and probably third largest after Eunomia and Juno, although Iris and Herculina are similar in size.
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3 Juno
Juno, minor-planet designation 3 Juno in the Minor Planet Center catalogue system, is an asteroid in the asteroid belt.
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333 Badenia
333 Badenia is a large C-type (carbonaceous-type) asteroid in the outer asteroid belt.
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342843 Davidbowie
342843 Davidbowie, provisional designation, is a Henan asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 1.4 kilometers in diameter.
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35 Leukothea
35 Leukothea (Greek: Λευκοθέα) is a large, dark asteroid from the asteroid belt It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Theodor Robert Luther on April 19, 1855, and named after Leukothea, a sea goddess in Greek mythology.
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37 Fides
37 Fides is a large main-belt asteroid.
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378 Holmia
378 Holmia is a typical Main belt asteroid.
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379 Huenna
379 Huenna is a large asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt.
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4 Vesta
Vesta, minor-planet designation 4 Vesta, is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of.
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420356 Praamzius
420356 Praamzius, provisional designation, is a trans-Neptunian object and possible dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, approximately 200 kilometers in diameter.
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4P/Faye
4P/Faye (also known as Faye's Comet or Comet Faye) is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered in November 1843 by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris.
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6344 P-L
6344 P-L is an unnumbered, sub-kilometer asteroid and suspected dormant comet, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group that was first observed on 24 September 1960, by astronomers and asteroid searchers Tom Gehrels, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Cornelis Johannes van Houten during the Palomar–Leiden survey at Palomar Observatory.
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830 Petropolitana
830 Petropolitana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
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831 Stateira
831 Stateira is an asteroid belonging to the Baptistina family in the Main Belt.
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87 Sylvia
87 Sylvia is the 8th-largest asteroid in the asteroid belt.
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886 Washingtonia
886 Washingtonia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
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90377 Sedna
90377 Sedna is a large minor planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System that was,, at a distance of about 86 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, about three times as far as Neptune.
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References
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