• Minor Planet Center
    in the Circulars. New orbits for comets and natural satellites appear in the Circulars; new orbits for minor planets appear in the Minor Planets and Comets...
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    List of minor planets
    newly numbered minor planets in its Minor Planet Circulars (see index). As of August 2024[update], there are 720,000 numbered minor planets (secured discoveries)...
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  • Meanings of minor-planet names: 1–1000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 13001–14000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 5001–6000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Giovanni de Sanctis (section List of discovered minor planets)
    particularly in the Minor Planet Circulars. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 42 numbered minor planets, most of which he discovered...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 10001–11000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–4000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 57001–58000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 2001–3000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 4001–5000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 23001–24000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 12001–13000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Minor-planet designation
    January 2013, it was named Wikipedia after being published in the Minor Planet Circulars. According to the preference of the astronomer and publishing date...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–7000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 21001–22000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 9001–10000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 20001–21000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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    152830 Dinkinesh (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
    Retrieved 12 September 2023. "M. P. S. 7496" (PDF). Minor Planet Circulars Supplement. Minor Planet Center. 23 November 1999. p. 284. Archived (PDF) from...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 7001–8000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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    Minor planet
    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...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 11001–12000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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    Eris (dwarf planet)
    Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 25001–26000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 19001–20000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 22001–23000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 29001–30000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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  • Meanings of minor planet names: 28001–29000
    Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL...
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