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 . [a] Before 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially used the term minor planet , but during that year's meeting it reclassified minor planets and comets into dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSBs). [1]
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2018 |
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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 . [a] Before 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially used the term minor planet , but during that year's meeting it reclassified minor planets and comets into dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSBs). [1] |
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2017 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a planet nor exclusively classified as a comet . [a] Before 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially used the term minor planet , but during that year's meeting it reclassified minor planets and comets into dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSBs). [1] |
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2016 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a planet nor exclusively classified as a comet . [a] Minor planets can be dwarf planets , asteroids , trojans , centaurs , Kuiper belt objects, and other trans-Neptunian objects . [1] As of 2016, the orbits of 709,706 minor planets were archived at the Minor Planet Center , 469,275 of which had received permanent numbers ). [2] |
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2015 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a planet nor exclusively classified as a comet . [a] Minor planets can be dwarf planets , asteroids , trojans , centaurs , Kuiper belt objects, and other trans-Neptunian objects . [1] The orbits of 692,604 minor planets were archived at the Minor Planet Center by 2015. [2] The first minor planet to be discovered was Ceres in 1801. |
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2014 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a planet nor originally classified as a comet . Minor planets can be dwarf planets , asteroids , trojans , centaurs , Kuiper belt objects, and other trans-Neptunian objects . [1] The orbits of 620,000 minor planets were archived at the Minor Planet Center by 2013. [2] The first minor planet to be discovered was Ceres in 1801, though it was considered to be a planet for fifty years. |
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2013 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a planet nor originally classified as a comet . Minor planets can be dwarf planets , asteroids , trojans , centaurs , Kuiper belt objects, and other trans-Neptunian objects . [1] The orbits of 620,000 minor planets were archived at the Minor Planet Center by 2013. [2] The first minor planet to be discovered was Ceres in 1801, though it was considered to be a planet for fifty years. |
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2012 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a dominant planet nor originally classified as a comet . Minor planets can be dwarf planets , asteroids , trojans , centaurs , Kuiper belt objects, and other trans-Neptunian objects . [1] The first minor planet discovered was Ceres in 1801 (although from the time of its discovery until 1851 it was considered to be a planet). The orbits of more than 570,000 objects have been archived at the Minor Planet Center . [2] |
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2011 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a dominant planet nor originally classified as a comet . Minor planets can be dwarf planets , asteroids , trojans , centaurs , Kuiper belt objects , and other trans-Neptunian objects . [1] The first minor planet discovered was Ceres in 1801. The orbits of more than 540,000 objects have been archived at the Minor Planet Center . [2] |
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2010 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a dominant planet nor a comet . The first minor planet discovered was Ceres in 1801. The orbits of more than 480,000 objects have been archived at The Minor Planet Center. [1] Most of these are in the main asteroid belt . [2] |
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2009 |
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A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a dominant planet nor a comet . The first minor planet discovered was Ceres in 1801. Since then, more than 200,000 minor planets have been discovered, most of them lying in the asteroid belt . |
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2008 |
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Minor planet is a term used since the 19th century to describe objects, such as asteroids , that are in orbit around the Sun but are not planets or comets . [1] The term planetoid has also been used, especially for larger objects. [2] Historically, the terms asteroid , minor planet , and planetoid have been more or less synonymous, [3] [2] but the issue has been complicated by the discovery of numerous minor planets beyond the orbit of Jupiter and especially Neptune that are not universally considered asteroids. [3] |