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As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Lieder drew the name Planet X from the hypothetical planet once searched for by astronomers to account for discrepancies in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. [20] In 1894, Bostonian astronomer Percival Lowell became convinced that the planets Uranus and Neptune had slight discrepancies in their orbits.
As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
In approximately 300,000 years, WR 104, a triple star, is expected to explode in a supernova. It has been suggested that it may produce a gamma ray burst that could pose a threat to life on Earth should its poles be aligned 12° or lower towards Earth. However spectroscopic observations now strongly suggest that it is tilted at an angle of 30 ...
Today at the dawn of the 22nd century Amazon issued the following press release: In celebration of the start of the 22nd century, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos IV and the President of the Earth Federation ...
First extrasolar planet discovered by indirect imaging (visible light) Found in 2020 to be a debris cloud from a collision of asteroids rather than a planet 2015 NameExoWorlds Tadmor: Ancient Palmyrene and modern Arabic name for Palmyra: Gamma Cephei A (Errai) 1.85 903.3 2.05 radial vel. 2003 45.0 1.4 2015 NameExoWorlds Meztli
The name "supernovae" is thought to have been coined by Walter Baade and Zwicky in lectures at Caltech in 1931. It was used, as "super-Novae", in a journal paper published by Knut Lundmark in 1933, [25] and in a 1934 paper by Baade and Zwicky. [26] By 1938, the hyphen was no longer used and the modern name was in use. [27]