A minor planet is "lost" when today's observers cannot find it, because its location is too uncertain to target observations. This happens if the orbital...

following is a list of numbered minor planets (essentially the same as asteroids) in ascending numerical order. Minor planets are defined as small bodies...

Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before...

also includes lost minor planets which have not been observed for many years, or even decades. As of August 2023[update], the Minor Planet Center (MPC)...

imaging of a body which was lost to our view (as behind the Sun), but is now visible again (also see lost minor planet and lost comet). Orbit determination...

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...

Makemake (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and the largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects...

A minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite. As of January 2022[update], there are 457 minor planets...

for 2024 is −3.27 and 10^3.27 = 1862. "MPEC 2007-F60: 2007 FT3". IAU Minor Planet Center. 21 March 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2019. (K07F03T) "NEODyS-2...

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...

minor planets, the Koronis asteroid 452 Hamiltonia in 1899, and the Mars-crosser asteroid (20958) A900 MA in 1900, which became a lost minor planet until...

estimated to be 660 meters (2,200 feet) in diameter. The unnumbered minor planet has a poorly constrained orbit and has not been observed in 45 years...

Tholen at Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, but is now considered a lost minor planet. Although its orbital elements have not been well established, its...

A Uranus-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Uranus. The numbered Uranus-crossers (as of 2005) are listed below. Most, if not all, are...

A Neptune-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Neptune. The dwarf planet Pluto is the most massive example of this class of object. The...

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...

minor planets in numerical order, see List of minor planets. Asteroids are given minor planet numbers, but not all minor planets are asteroids. Minor...

of which was in turn rendered obsolete by the increasing numbers of minor planet discoveries. A modern or new-style provisional designation consists of...

27P/Crommelin and others, he advanced the recovery of lost comets as well as those of lost minor planets. The main-belt asteroid 2384 Schulhof, discovered...

original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2017. "2004 FU162". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 28 April 2017. "Closest by far". hohmanntransfer. 22...

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...

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...

Sedna (minor-planet designation: 90377 Sedna) is a dwarf planet in the outermost reaches of the Solar System, orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune...

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...

designation 1980 XW, is a bright Vestian asteroid and a formerly lost minor planet from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6.5 kilometers...

Palisa at the Vienna Observatory on 3 October 1911, and subsequently a lost minor planet for 89 years. The asteroid was named in memory of Albert Salomon Anselm...

A critical-list minor planet (critical list numbered object or critical object) is a numbered minor planet for which existing measurements of the orbit...

Juno (minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. Juno was the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer...

exists or is deemed to have disappeared. Lost comets can be compared to lost asteroids (lost minor planets), although calculation of comet orbits differs...

tables list all minor planets and comets that have been visited by robotic spacecraft. A total of 18 minor planets (asteroids, dwarf planets, and Kuiper belt...