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'''17246 Christophedumas''' ([[Minor planet provisional designation|provisional designation]] '''{{mp|2000 GL|74 ...It was named after planetary scientist Christophe Dumas. The asteroid's [[minor-planet moon]] was discovered in 2004.<ref name="Tamblyn-2004" /> ...

...(2003-2006), the Secretary of Commission for “Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites” (2012-2015), and the first President of the Cross-Div ...center.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=4701 | title=IAU Minor Planet Center }}</ref> ...

...t the Jet Propulsion Laboratory looking at the atmospheres of Solar System planets. He discovered [[water vapor]] in the atmosphere of [[Mars]],<ref name = "S ...1981, was named for Hyron Spinrad<ref>{{cite book | title = Dictionary of minor planet names | author = Schmadel, Lutz D. | date = 2003 | isbn = 978-3-540- ...

...roid|Amor group]] of asteroids, approximately 900 meters in diameter. It [[minor-planet moon]] has an estimated diameter of 270 meters. ...probable/possible asynchronous [[Binary asteroid|binary system]] with a [[minor-planet moon]] orbiting it every 7.0035 hours,<ref name="lcdb" /> or twice t ...

...ta" /><br/>[[Distant minor planet|distant]]<ref name="MPC-object" />{{·}}[[minor-planet moon|binary]]<ref name="Leiva2020" /> ...ry date as 8 September 2011,<ref name="MPC111781"/> in accordance with the Minor Planet Center's discovery rules.<ref name="HowNamed"/> ...

'''HIP 65426 b''', formally named '''Najsakopajk''',<ref name="NEW2022"/> is a [[super-Jupiter]] [[exoplanet] ...in June 2023. HIP 65426 b is named '''Najsakopajk''' and its host star is named '''Matza''', after [[Zoque people|Zoque]] words for "Mother Earth" and "sta ...

...ear.<ref name="iaunaming"/> "(136472)" is Makemake's [[minor planet number|minor-planet number]].<ref name="IAU0806"/> ...nal Astronomical Union (News Release – IAU0806) |title=Fourth dwarf planet named Makemake |author=International Astronomical Union |url=http://www.iau.org/p ...

...r [[Catalina Sky Survey]]. The asteroid's discovery was announced by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on 25 February 2020, after subsequent observations confirme ...y announced in a [[Minor Planet Electronic Circular]] notice issued by the Minor Planet Center on 25 February 2020. No indication of [[perturbation (astrono ...

Before Vanth was named, it had the [[provisional designation]] {{nowrap|S/2005 (90482) 1}}.<ref na ...name="CSBN-MPnames"/> The official naming citation was announced by the [[Minor Planet Center]] in a notice published on 30 March 2010.<ref name="MPC69496" ...

'''Gonggong''' ([[minor-planet designation]]: '''225088 Gonggong''') is a [[dwarf planet]] and a me ...e, though such an atmosphere would slowly escape into space. The object is named after ''[[Gonggong (mythology)|Gònggōng]]'', a Chinese water god responsibl ...

{{about||the Tongva god after which the object is named|Chinigchinix}} ...t object|cubewano]]<ref name="Buie"/><ref name="MPEC-2008-O05"/>|[[Distant minor planet|distant]]<ref name="MPC-object"/> [[dwarf planet]]}} ...

...hat of the Earth's and the Sun's diameter is about 10 times Jupiter's. The planets are not shown at the appropriate distance from the Sun.]] ...Near East, believed the sky was a solid dome with the [[Sun]], [[Moon]], [[planets]] and [[stars]] embedded in it.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Westminster The ...

...ion opposite that of the movement of the Sun, a phenomenon that came to be named "precession of the equinoxes". He reckoned the value as 1° per century, a v ...ished that allowed computation of the positions of the Sun, [[Moon]] and [[planets]] relative to the fixed stars. An important application of these tables was ...

The first interstellar objects discovered were [[rogue planet]]s, planets ejected from their original stellar system (e.g., [[OTS 44]] or [[Cha 11091 ...a host star and have become unbound since. Different processes can cause planets and smaller objects (planetesimals) to become unbound from their host star. ...

...onal designation]] '''S/2003 (65803) 1''') is a [[natural satellite]] or [[minor-planet moon|moon]] of the [[near-Earth object|near-Earth asteroid]] [[65803 ...{cite web |title=MPEC 2020-M83 |website=minorplanetcenter.net |publisher=[[Minor Planet Center]] |place=Cambridge, MA |url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpe ...

...'Oumuamua |date=16 March 2021 |journal=[[Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets]] |volume=126 |issue=5 |doi=10.1029/2020JE006807 |arxiv=2103.08812 |bibcode ...asteroid-oumuamua |title=Our Solar System's First Interstellar Asteroid is Named {{okina}}Oumuamua' |last=Kesh |first=Johnathan |date=8 November 2017 |websi ...

{{see also|Planets beyond Neptune#Orbits of distant objects|Detached object#Orbits}} ...work is considered similar to more recent Planet Nine theories in that the planets would be responsible for a clustering of the orbits of several objects, in ...

...[[chord (geometry)|chord]] length to define his trigonometric functions, a minor difference from the [[sine]] convention we use today.{{sfnp|Thurston|1996|l The [[Multiplicative inverse|reciprocals]] of these ratios are named the '''cosecant''' (csc), '''secant''' (sec), and '''cotangent''' (cot), re ...

...rbital distance]] of {{convert|30.1|AU|e9km e9mi|1|lk=in|abbr=off}}. It is named after [[Neptune (mythology)|the Roman god of the sea]] and has the [[astron ...url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303045911/http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune&Display=OverviewLong |archive-date=3 March 2008 ...

...south of [[Canis Major]] and [[Lepus (constellation)|Lepus]]. Columba was named by Dutch astronomer [[Petrus Plancius]] in 1592 in order to differentiate t * ''[[Chamaeleon]]'' is named after the [[chameleon]], a kind of [[lizard]]. ...