Pallas (minor-planet designation: 2 Pallas) is the third-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass. It is the second asteroid to have been...
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Minor planet (redirect from Planetoid)
1841, and was considered a subcategory of 'planet' until 1932. The term planetoid has also been used, especially for larger, planetary objects such as those...
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Ceres (dwarf planet) (redirect from 1 Ceres (planetoid))
planet. Although they did not discover Ceres, they later found the asteroids Pallas, Juno, and Vesta. One of the astronomers selected for the search was Giuseppe...
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Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that of Pallas (about 5% greater), but it is 25% to 30% more massive. It constitutes an...
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recent research, the Magi Society uses the major asteroids/planetoids of Chiron, Ceres, Juno, Pallas and Vesta. They also recently attributed Sedna to stock...
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Pluto (redirect from Pluto (planetoid))
of only eight planets, which made headlines almost a year later. Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta lost their planet status among most astronomers after the...
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; Cox, Donald William (1964). Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids. Philadelphia: Chilton Books. McSween, Harry Y. (2004). Meteorites and...
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FORM TWO. Athena (Pallas) with her lance and Poseidon (Neptune) with his trident. These weapons became the symbols of the planets Pallas and Neptune, respectively...
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300 millimetres Venus and Jupiter on 1 March 2022 from South Africa Planetoid Pallas passed Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, on October 9 to...
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Asteroids in fiction (redirect from Pallas in fiction)
Asteroid of Gold", Stanton A. Coblentz's 1935 short story "The Golden Planetoid", and Malcolm Jameson's 1940 short story "Prospectors of Space". Along...
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reflected in Russian Паллада Pallada 'Pallas' and Церера Tserera 'Ceres', as well as in Italian Pallade 'Pallas' and Cerere 'Ceres', as in these (and...
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Haumea (redirect from Haumea (planetoid))
Rabinowitz, D. L. (2004). "Discovery of a candidate inner Oort cloud planetoid". The Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 645–649. arXiv:astro-ph/0404456...
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(Ganymede 1.94, Callisto 1.83, Titan 1.88, Triton 2.06) rather than to Pallas (2.9±0.1) or Vesta (3.45). Although it is the largest body in its region...
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identification of Ceres as a dwarf planet. His work on the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets led to the introduction of the Gaussian gravitational...
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and chose the sickle as a symbol of the planet. The symbol for Pallas, the spear of Pallas Athena, was invented by Baron Franz Xaver von Zach, and introduced...
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planets had been proposed as a category of small planet (as opposed to planetoids as sub-planetary objects) and planetary geologists continue to treat them...
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Dragon" is coordinating the asteroid strikes. On Ceres, Marco declares the planetoid the capital of the Belt, drawing wide praise and acclaim. Meanwhile, Filip...
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List of possible dwarf planets (redirect from List of planetoids)
in its history, but no longer is today. The third-most massive object, 2 Pallas, has a somewhat irregular surface and is thought to have only a partially...
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liquid on or near the surface of a solid round body (terrestrial planet, planetoid, or moon). Currently, cold surface bodies of liquid are found on two worlds...
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Rabinowitz; Chad Trujillo (2004). "Discovery of a Candidate Inner Oort Cloud Planetoid". Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 645–649. arXiv:astro-ph/0404456. Bibcode:2004ApJ...
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inadvertently both return to the same one. In Edgar Wallace's 1929 novel Planetoid 127, both individuals and events are identical between the two worlds...
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Pluto, the planetoid, with related terms plutoid and plutino; plutonium, the heaviest naturally occurring element, named after the planetoid; pluton, a...
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tops one hundred million. Colonies on Ceres, Pallas, Vesta, Juno, Hidalgo, and twenty-seven smaller planetoids. 2066 - Sixth Saturn exploration team; Ganymede/Callisto...
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Investigations of Ceres, and the Discovery of Pallas (2016), published by Springer. ISBN 978-3319288130 Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century (2017)...
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Ships" (5/12/31 to 8/15/31) (Series I, Strips 734 to 816) D010 – "On the Planetoid Eros" (8/17/31 to 12/2/31) (Series I, Strips 817 to 909) D011 – "On the...
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Rabinowitz; Chad Trujillo (2004). "Discovery of a Candidate Inner Oort Cloud Planetoid". Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 645–649. arXiv:astro-ph/0404456. Bibcode:2004ApJ...
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flyby of the asteroid 2 Pallas after the completion of the Ceres mission was suggested but never formally considered; orbiting Pallas would not have been...
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