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4 days ago · A minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite. As of January 2022, there are 457 minor planets known or suspected to have moons. [1] Discoveries of minor-planet moons (and binary objects, in general) are important because the determination of their orbits provides estimates on the mass and ...
2 days ago · There are also 23,542 named minor planets mostly after people, places and figures from mythology and fiction, [4] which account for only 3.8% of all numbered catalog entries. (4596) 1981 QB and 623827 Nikandrilyich are currently the lowest-numbered unnamed and highest-numbered named minor planets, respectively. [1] [4]
Apr 11, 2024 · The Short Answer: The Kuiper Belt is a ring of icy bodies just outside of Neptune’s orbit. Pluto is the most famous Kuiper Belt Object. The Sun is at the center of our solar system. It is orbited by eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But what’s past Neptune?
