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Also includes the asteroid belt (the white donut-shaped cloud), the Hildas (the orange "triangle" just inside the orbit of Jupiter), the Jupiter trojans (green), and the near-Earth asteroids. The group that leads Jupiter are called the "Greeks" and the trailing group are called the "Trojans" (Murray and Dermott, Solar System Dynamics , pg. 107)
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a ... the image of the body would seem to float slightly above the background of ...
25143 Itokawa (provisional designation 1998 SF 36) is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and also a potentially hazardous asteroid.It was discovered by the LINEAR program in 1998 and later named after Japanese rocket engineer Hideo Itokawa. [1]
28978 Ixion (/ ɪ k ˈ s aɪ. ə n /, provisional designation 2001 KX 76) is a large trans-Neptunian object and a possible dwarf planet.It is located in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects orbiting beyond Neptune in the outer Solar System.
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21 Lutetia is a large M-type asteroid in the main asteroid belt.It measures about 100 kilometers in diameter (120 km along its major axis). It was discovered in 1852 by Hermann Goldschmidt, and is named after Lutetia, the Latin name of Paris.