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  2. Asteroid - Wikipedia

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    An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids).

  3. 2024 YR4 - Wikipedia

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    The asteroid's provisional designation as a minor planet, "2024 YR 4", was assigned by the Minor Planet Center when its discovery was announced on 27 December 2024. [2] The first letter, "Y", indicates that the asteroid was discovered in the second half-month of December (16 to 31 December), and "R 4" indicates that it was the 117th provisional designation to be assigned in that half-month.

  4. List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft

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    0.76 Space probe broke orbit on 5 September 2012 and headed to Ceres; first "big four" asteroid visited by a spacecraft, largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft at the time.

  5. 2022 EB5 - Wikipedia

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    2022 EB_5, Daniel W. E. Green, Central Bureau Electronic Telegram, Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, 13 March 2022; 2022 EB5 at NeoDyS-2, Near Earth Objects—Dynamic Site

  6. List of exceptional asteroids - Wikipedia

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    The number of bodies grows rapidly as the size decreases.Based on IRAS data there are about 140 main-belt asteroids with a diameter greater than 120 km, [6] which is approximately the transition point between surviving primordial asteroids and fragments thereof.

  7. 99942 Apophis - Wikipedia

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    99942 Apophis (provisional designation 2004 MN 4) is a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous object, 450 metres (1,480 ft) by 170 metres (560 ft) in size, [3] that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observations indicated a probability of 2.7% that it would hit Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029.

  8. 101955 Bennu - Wikipedia

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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 third highest cumulative rating on the Palermo scale. [9]

  9. 152830 Dinkinesh - Wikipedia

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    152830 Dinkinesh (provisional designation 1999 VD 57) is a binary main-belt asteroid about 790 meters (2,600 feet) in diameter. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey at Socorro, New Mexico on 4 November 1999.

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