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List of minor planets. The catalog of minor planets is published by the Minor Planet Center and contains 720,000 entries, including 134340 Pluto. [ 1] For an overview, see index. The following is a list of numbered minor planets in ascending numerical order. With the exception of comets, minor planets are all small bodies in the Solar System ...
Distant minor planets, an umbrella term for minor planets in the outer Solar System. Centaurs , bodies in the outer Solar System between Jupiter and Neptune. They have unstable orbits due to the gravitational influence of the giant planets, and therefore must have come from elsewhere, probably outside Neptune.
Appearance. The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 1 through 1000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL 's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" [ 1 ] and data available from the Minor Planet Center. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Critical list information is also provided by the MPC, [ 2 ...
Eris ( minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. [ 22] It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has a high- eccentricity orbit. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory –based team led by Mike Brown and verified later that year.
The main article for this category is Minor planet. See also: Minor-planet designation and Provisional designation in astronomy. See also: Category:Discoverers of minor planets. Minor planets are objects that are substantially smaller than the major planets, but larger than meteoroids .
This is a list of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which are minor planets in the Solar System that orbit the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune, that is, their orbit has a semi-major axis greater than 30.1 astronomical units (AU). The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three conventional divisions of this volume of ...
List of minor-planet groups. A minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid. It is customary to name a group of asteroids after the first member of that group to be ...
Many minor planets are also named after places such cities, towns, and villages, mountains and volcanoes; after rivers, observatories, as well as organizations, clubs and astronomical societies. Some are named after animals and plants. A few minor planets are named after exotic entities such as supercomputers or have an unknown origin.