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  2. (300163) 2006 VW139 - Wikipedia

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    2006 VW 139 is a non-family asteroid of the main-belt's background population. [9] It is both a binary asteroid and a main-belt comet, also known as "active asteroid".It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.4–3.7 AU once every 5 years and 4 months (1,944 days; semi-major axis of 3.05 AU).

  3. Vincent Rapide - Wikipedia

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    As was the case with the Vincent singles, the transmission in the Series A was a separate 4-speed unit supplied by Burman with a triplex chain primary drive, but with heavy-duty internals and a different wet multiplate clutch. [1]: 19 Even with these changes the transmission was unable to cope with the output of the big V-twin.

  4. Velocette - Wikipedia

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    Velocette is a range of motorcycles made by Veloce Ltd, in Hall Green, Birmingham, England.One of several motorcycle manufacturers in Birmingham, Velocette was a small, family-owned firm, selling almost as many hand-built motorcycles during its lifetime as the mass-produced machines of the giant BSA and Norton concerns. [1]

  5. Solar System belts - Wikipedia

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    The asteroid and comet belts orbit the Sun from the inner rocky planets into outer parts of the Solar System, interstellar space. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] An astronomical unit , or AU, is the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 150 billion meters (93 million miles). [ 19 ]

  6. All-terrain vehicle - Wikipedia

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    They called it the Avenger 400. Prior to that, Adventure Vehicles made 3 wheel ATVs and a dump body utility 3 wheeler using Kohler 8 hp engines and Comet drive systems (Comet centrifugal belt-driven clutch, and a Comet forward, neutral, reverse transaxle, with a rigid rear axle or rear differential option.)

  7. List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft

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    (a) Due to a non-spherical, irregular shape, a comet's x, y, and z axes instead of an (average) diameter are often used to describe its dimensions. (b) Closest approach given in multiples of the comet's (average mean) radius · List ordered in ascending order by a comet's first visit.

  8. 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko - Wikipedia

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    67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (abbreviated as 67P or 67P/C–G) is a Jupiter-family comet. [10] It is originally from the Kuiper belt [11] and has an orbital period of 6.45 years as of 2012, [1] a rotation period of approximately 12.4 hours, [9] and a maximum velocity of 135,000 km/h (38 km/s; 84,000 mph). [12]

  9. Stardust (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Comet Wild 2 was selected as the primary target of the mission for the rare chance to observe a long-period comet that has ventured close to the Sun. The comet has since become a short period comet after an event in 1974, where the orbit of Wild 2 was affected by the gravitational pull of Jupiter, moving the orbit inward, closer to the Sun. In ...