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	Asteroid
		Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
		Piazzi named it after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture.
		For instance Centaurs (asteroids orbiting between Saturn and Neptune) are all named after mythological centaurs, Trojans after heroes from the Trojan War, and trans-Neptunian objects after underworld spirits.
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/astronomy/asteroid.html (3598 words)

	Asteroids - Crystalinks
		After this, other astronomers joined in the search and at least one new asteroid was discovered every year after that (except the wartime year 1945).
		It is customary to name a group of asteroids after the first member of that group to be discovered.
		Asteroid naming is not always a free-for-all: there are some types of asteroid for which rules have developed about the sources of names.
	www.crystalinks.com /asteroids.html (2144 words)

	Astronomical objects named after people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These include the names of a few thousand asteroids and hundreds of comets.
		Also, many topological features on solar system bodies have been named after people, including many hundreds of craters on the Moon, Mars and other planets and satellites.
		Finally, a very few stars are named after people (according to the IAU), such as Barnard's star.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astronomical_objects_named_after_people (233 words)

	List of reference tables
		This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
		List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century
		List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_reference_tables.html (1037 words)

	Getting Your Name in Lights - by Duncan Steel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The feline itself was named for the Vulcan in Star Trek, on the grounds that he (the cat) was also "imperturbable, logical, intelligent and had pointed ears".
		While some names are not allowed - like terms in bad taste, or people best-known for military or political exploits unless they've been dead for at least a century (Napoleon is all right, but not Margaret Thatcher) - the committee is not humourless.
		After an asteroid is discovered (the IAU insists they should be called minor planets) it will generally take a few years before its orbit about the sun is well-enough determined to deserve adding to the definitive list of asteroids.
	ephemeral.info /qot/name_in_lights.shtml (1183 words)

	SPACE.com -- Asteroids Named in Memory of September 11 Terrorism Victims
		The decision to name the asteroids was made unilaterally in a unanimous agreement among the 13 members of the International Astronomical Union's Committee for Small Body Nomenclature.
		The three asteroids were each discovered by observatories on different continents and "are intended as a positive statement abhorring the tragedy that occurred on a fourth," according to a monthly newsletter from the IAU.
		Asteroids, most of which orbit the Sun in a wide swath of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, have been named for rock stars, classical musicians, politicians and even cities and countries.
	www.space.com /news/asteroid_setp11_011010.html (850 words)

	Space Today Online - Solar System - Asteroids
		Asteroids are composed of material left over from the formation of the Solar System billions of years ago.
		If people ever were to decide to try to deflect an asteroid, data from the various asteroid probes could provide the necessary knowledge about composition, density, surface strength and other technical aspects of asteroids.
		Asteroid 2002 MN was found by astronomers at the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project in Socorro, New Mexico.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Asteroids/AsteroidsDescribed.html (2955 words)

	A/CC Catalog: Asteroids 4000-19999
		The asteroid had been known only as 1992 KD until a couple of days before the flyby, when it was named after Louis Braille, inventor of the raised-dot reading system for sightless people.
		The population of near-Earth asteroids in coorbital motion with the Earth.
		After further observation, it was announced in MPEC 1997-B18 of 30 Jan. 1997.
	www.hohmanntransfer.com /cat/an3.htm (2425 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Asteroids Work"
		In 1772, a mathematician named Johann Titus and an astronomer named Johann Bode discovered a mathematical sequence in the distances of the planets from the sun -- this sequence predicted the possibility of a planet orbiting in between Mars and Jupiter at 2.8 AU (2.6x10
		Asteroids are small, rocky bodies that orbit the sun in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, which is anywhere from 2.1 AU (1.95x10
		We think that asteroids are the remainders of planetismals, early pieces of the solar system, that formed between Mars and Jupiter.
	www.howstuffworks.com /asteroid1.htm (391 words)

	SPACE.com -- From Clapton to Zappa: Name That Asteroid
		Marsden, an asteroid hunter himself, chose Duke Ellington to be immortalized in a semi-stable orbit around the Sun.
		The list seems endless, though only 60 percent of space rocks have been given names -- the nomenclatural process is woefully behind the more immediate and structured numbering convention.
		After all, if an asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth, scientists want people of many languages to be able to recognize it.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/solarsystem/asteroid_name_991021.html (813 words)

	RASNZ Occultation Section - Multiple Asteroids
		Because 87 Sylvia was named after Rhea Sylvia, the mythical mother of the founders of Rome, Marchis proposed naming the twin moons after those founders: Romulus and Remus.
		The Science article, "Binary Asteroids in the Near-Earth Object Population," is coauthored by Michael Nolan, research associate at Arecibo; Lance Benner, Steven Ostro, Raymond Jurgens, Jon Giorgini and Martin Slade at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); and Donald Campbell, professor of astronomy at Cornell.
		The asteroid pair was once assumed to be a single body, called Antiope, orbiting the sun in the outer parts of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
	occsec.wellington.net.nz /planet/news/satellites.htm (5494 words)

	Earth Changes TV - Comets & Asteroids
		After launch the NEAP will enter a phasing orbit and will make at least six close passes over the north and south poles of the Moon.
		The asteroid, which measures 24 miles in length and 10 miles in diameter (40 kilometers x 17 kilometers) was the first near-Earth asteroid (those whose orbits come close to or cross the orbit of Earth) spotted by astronomers.
		Asteroids are too small for gravity to capture dust, but static electricity might do the job instead.
	www.earthchangestv.com /comets/index.htm (5800 words)

	PERMANENT - Asteroids Near Earth - Discovering and Cataloging
		In order for an asteroid to be catalogued, we must determine its orbit, and hence there must be at least three viewings to chart its orbital elements, one viewing within a few days after the initial sighting, and another between about two weeks and a month later.
		The Earth's atmosphere is a big problem, because the asteroid usually moves across the sky to the horizon in about a month and it's hard to see near the horizon due to the thickness of the atmosphere and the horizon glow from manmade sources.
		A key to the formal discovery of this asteroid was the precision and accuracy of Mr.
	www.permanent.com /a-catalo.htm (4449 words)

	So You Want to Buy A Star?
		If you want to have a star named and have that name used by astronomers then the answer is no. Read the section below on how stars get their names.
		There is nothing official about the name nor is there any guarantee that the star you've "purchased" hasn't been sold to someone else by another company in the same business.
		The names generally derive from scientists, artists, musicians, etc. Click here for a list of asteroids that have been named.
	home.carolina.rr.com /nirgal/buyastar.html (1004 words)

	Asteroid - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Between all of the automated systems, 2701 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Unusual.html including over 600 more than 1 km in diameter.
		In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Han Solo escapes Empire spacecraft by hiding the Millennium Falcon on an asteroid, but is then attacked by a vast monster that lives (for some unexplained reason) within the asteroid.
		Arthur C. Clarke's novel (1986) depicts a journey through the asteroid belt and its ominous parallels with the journey of the RMS Titanic.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=791 (2893 words)

	Curious About Astronomy: Who named the planets and who decides what to name them?
		The planet names are derived from Roman and Greek mythology, except for the name Earth which is Germanic and Old English in origin.
		For example, Venus, the planet that appears the brightest, was named after the Roman goddess of beauty, while the reddish Mars was named after the god of war.
		The name Pluto was apparently suggested by Venetia Burney, an 11-year-old from Oxford, England, and then recommended to astronomers by the observatory staff.
	curious.astro.cornell.edu /question.php?number=372 (752 words)

	asteroids
		was the first asteroid ever discovered, in 1801.
		There are thousands of named asteroids available from which to choose, and it can
		the asteroids come in as many different languages as are spoken by the
	www.beadylittleskies.com /asteroids.html (400 words)

	U of Toronto Astronomy and Astrophysics Library - our web pages
		All use of secondary material is done with the permission, cooperation, enthusiasm and sometimes at the request of the copyright holder.
		We provide a list of astro-related journals and a page with more info about electronic journals.
		Sample listing of books on writing, presentating talks, ergonomics, and many other non-astro topics, as well as books that deal with the discipline as a whole.
	www.astro.utoronto.ca /AALibrary/old/library_pages.html (529 words)

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