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101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ 36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has the highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale . [9]
The word glíma is the Icelandic term for "wrestling" in general. The same word has also a wider meaning of "struggle". Glima differs from other ethnic wrestling styles in three ways: Upright position – The contestants must remain upright. The body position in many other ethnic wrestling styles is often bent over at the waist, but in glima ...
The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to World War II and completed as designed. A third hull, laid down in 1940, was converted to an aircraft carrier, Shinano, during construction. Displacing nearly 72,000 long tons (73,000 ...
Vulcanoid. The zone, represented by the orange region, in which vulcanoids may exist, compared with the orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth. The vulcanoids are a hypothetical population of asteroids that orbit the Sun in a dynamically stable zone inside the orbit of the planet Mercury. They are named after the hypothetical planet Vulcan, which ...
Aug 29, 2023 · main belt. ( astronomy) Synonym of asteroid belt; the main asteroid belt in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter . Coordinate term: Kuiper belt. 2002, Edward C. Blair, Asteroids: Overview, Abstracts, and Bibliography, Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 15: Dr. Witt suspected a highly eccentric orbit ...
The mass of 4 Vesta (blue) compared to other large asteroids: 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, 10 Hygiea, 704 Interamnia, 15 Eunomia and the remainder of the Main Belt. The unit of mass is × 10 18 kg. Other objects in the Solar system with well-defined masses within a factor of 2 of Vesta's mass are Varda, Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà, and Salacia (245, 136, and ...
The number of dwarf planets in the Solar System is unknown. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the Kuiper belt and over 10,000 in the region beyond. However, consideration of the surprisingly low densities of many large trans-Neptunian objects, as well as spectroscopic analysis of their surfaces, suggests that the number of dwarf planets may be much lower, perhaps only eight among bodies ...
