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...amilies, satellite geodesy, planetary exploration, orbit determination and asteroid impact risk assessment. In his brilliant career he pioneered most of the pr ...ecretary of Commission for “Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites” (2012-2015), and the first President of the Cross-Division A-F Commission ...

| discoverer = [[Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research|LINEAR]] | satellites = 1<ref name="Tamblyn-2004" /><ref name="johnstonarchive" />{{efn|name ...

| satellites = 1 {{small|([[Diameter|D]]: 72 km; [[Orbital period|P]]: 84.12 [[Days ...ion]] '''{{mp|1999 OJ|4}}''') is a [[trans-Neptunian object]] and [[Binary asteroid|binary system]] from the classical [[Kuiper belt]], located in the outermos ...

{{Short description|Eccentric, stony asteroid and binary system}} | mp_category = [[Near-Earth object|NEO]]{{·}}[[Amor asteroid|Amor]]<ref name="jpldata" /><ref name="MPC-object" /> ...

{{Short description|Asteroid}} | [[Apollo asteroid|Apollo]] ...

[[File:Irregular moon orbits a vs. i.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Irregular satellites of Jupiter (red), Saturn (green), Uranus (magenta) and Neptune (blue; inclu ...ave formed from the destruction of a larger captured moon of Uranus due to asteroid and comet [[impact event|impact]]s, which left many fragments in similar or ...

[[File:Irregular moon orbits a vs. i.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Irregular satellites of Jupiter (red), Saturn (green), Uranus (magenta) and Neptune (blue; inclu ...ve formed from the destruction of a larger captured moon of Neptune due to asteroid and comet [[impact event|impact]]s, which left many fragments in similar or ...

| [[Apollo asteroid|Apollo]]<ref name="jpldata" /><ref name="MPC-object" /> | satellites = ...

...190F-AIAASciTech2016-AIAA-2016-0999.pdf |title=Airborne Observations of an Asteroid Entry for High Fidelity Modeling: Space Debris Object WT1190F |last=Jennisk ...ger. While it has not been positively identified with any known artificial satellites, its estimated density of 0.1&nbsp;g/cm³ was much lower than wou ...

...729221115/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/21/jupiter-scar-comet-asteroid-crash| archive-date= 29 July 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> ...= Peter T. | editor2-last = Rickman | editor2-first = Hans | title = Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society, An Interdisciplinary Approach | pages = 303–330 ...

[[File:Irregular moon orbits a vs. i.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Irregular satellites of Jupiter (red), Saturn (green), Uranus (magenta) and Neptune (blue; inclu ...ve formed from the destruction of a larger captured moon of Neptune due to asteroid and comet [[impact event|impact]]s, which left many fragments in similar or ...

{{About-distinguish2|the fourth moon of Pluto|the asteroid [[1865 Cerberus]]}} ...|first3=Robert A.|last4=Buie|first4=Marc W.|title=The orbits and masses of satellites of Pluto|journal=Icarus|date=January 2015|volume=246|pages=317–329|doi=10.1 ...

...er than planets, including [[natural satellite]]s, [[dwarf planet]]s and [[asteroid]]s. The lower average density and temperature of these objects give them lo *[[List of natural satellites]] ...

...ring|ring systems]], [[moonlet]]s, [[minor-planet moon]]s and [[artificial satellites]] any of which may themselves have satellite systems of their own (see [[Su ...onsidered satellite systems, although some have been orbited by artificial satellites originating from Earth. ...

{{short description|Moon of asteroid Didymos}} ...by [[Double Asteroid Redirection Test|DART]]'s Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO). Dimorphos is oriented so that its no ...

...ost applications, Keplerian motion approximates the motions of planets and satellites to relatively high degrees of accuracy and is used extensively in [[astrono ...t impact on accuracy. This effect is quite noticeable for artificial Earth satellites, especially those in low orbits. ...

...UBV: Subroutine to Compute Photometric Magnitudes of the Planets and Their Satellites |type = Technical report |publisher = [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] |pages * [[Asteroid color indices]] ...

...and on crewed lunar missions. Small fission reactors for Earth observation satellites, such as the [[TOPAZ nuclear reactor]], have also been flown.<ref>{{cite bo ...3156|s2cid=94174828}}</ref> the USSR sent about 40 nuclear-electric [[US-A|satellites]] into space, mostly powered by the [[BES-5]] reactor. The more powerful TO ...

...=http://solarviews.com/eng/galdisc.htm|title=The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites|website=solarviews.com|access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref> However, after a week ...and similar objects if found, be placed into a separate category, named [[asteroid]]s, although they were still counted among the planets for some decades.<re ...

...r trajectory but is temporarily passing close to a star, such as certain [[asteroid]]s and [[comet]]s (that is, [[exoasteroid]]s and [[exocomet]]s<ref name="Va ...r interstellar objects will be handled using the C/ or A/ prefix (comet or asteroid), as appropriate.<ref name="NewDesignation" /> ...