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	Asteroid
		The term asteroid is generally used to indicate a diverse group of small celestial bodies that drift in the solar system in orbit around the Sun.
		It is thought that these asteroids are remnants of the protoplanetary disc, and in this region the incorporation of protoplanetary remnants into the planets was prevented by large gravitational perturbations induced by Jupiter during the formative period of the solar system.
		Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/as/asteroid.html (3774 words)

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		Most asteroids are believed to be remnants of the protoplanetary disc which were not incorporated into planets during the system's formation due to excessive gravitational perturbations by Jupiter.
		Ironically, the first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi director, at the time, of the observatory of Palermo, in Sicily.
		Also, the fictional asteroid of The Little Prince, B612, now could be connected with the real (110612) 2001 TA which is listed as (B0612) 2001 TA in the compacted lists â”although it is already present as 46610 BÃ©sixdouze (B612 in hexadecimal translates to 46610 in decimal notation).
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/astronomy/asteroid.html (3538 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Asteroid - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
		It has been suggested that asteroids might be used in the future as a source of materials which may be rare or exhausted on earth (asteroid mining), or materials for constructing space habitats (see Colonization of the asteroids).
		A common depiction of asteroids (and less often, of comets) in fiction is as a threat, whose impact on Earth could result with incalculable damage and loss of life.
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	Asteroid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The asteroids are believed to be remnants of the protoplanetary disc which were not incorporated into planets during the system's formation.
		A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in diameter, distinguishing them from meteoroids, which are typically boulder-sized or smaller.
		Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
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	List of asteroids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After discovery, asteroids generally receive a provisional designation (such as "1989 AC"), then a number (such as 4179), and finally (optionally) a name (such as "Toutatis"), in that order.
		Asteroids whose orbits are not (yet) precisely known are known by their provisional designation.
		In extreme cases, such as "lost" asteroids, there may be a considerable mismatch: for instance the high-numbered 69230 Hermes was originally discovered in 1937, but was lost until 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_asteroids (422 words)

	List of noteworthy asteroids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to this, asteroids are known only by their systematic name or provisional designation, such as "1950 DA".
		Asteroids with orbital inclinations greater than 90° orbit in a retrograde direction.
		Discovered in 1996 as a comet, but orbitally matched to asteroid 1979 OW Note there are a quite a few other cases where a non-numbered asteroid with only a systematic designation (such as 2001 OG₁₀₈) turned out to be a comet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_noteworthy_asteroids (1374 words)

	Asteroids - Crystalinks
		The expected motion of the missing planet was about 30 seconds of arc per hour, readily discernable by observers.Ironically, the first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi director, at the time, of the observatory of Palermo, in Sicily.
		Notable asteroid hunters of this early era were J. Hind, Annibale de Gasparis, Robert Luther, H. Goldschmidt, Jean Chacornac, James Ferguson, Norman Robert Pogson, E. Tempel, J. Watson, C. Peters, A. Borrelly, J. Palisa, Paul Henry and Prosper Henry and Auguste Charlois.
		Also, the fictional asteroid of The Little Prince, B612, now could be connected with the real (110612) 2001 TA142 which is listed as (B0612) 2001 TA142 in the compacted lists - although it is already present as 46610 Bésixdouze (B612 in hexadecimal translates to 46610 in decimal notation).
	www.crystalinks.com /asteroids.html (2158 words)

	Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ironically, the first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi director, at the time, of the observatory of Palermo, in Sicily.
		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.
		Until the age of space travel, asteroids were merely pinpricks of light in even the largest telescopes and their shapes and terrain remained a mystery.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asteroid (3218 words)

	Asteroid article - Asteroid Solar System minor planet planets protoplanetary disc moons - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The term "asteroid" was coined by William Herschel because of the star-like appearance of the first few asteroids discovered (the other then-known planets all show discs, by comparison).
		Ironically, the first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801.
		In 2003, a new class of asteroids, the Apoheles, was discovered when 2003 CP was found to have an orbit that always keeps it closer to the Sun than the Earth.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Asteroid (2048 words)

	List of noteworthy asteroids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Double asteroid with two nearly equal components; its double nature was discovered using adaptive optics
		Discovered in 1996 as a comet, but orbitally matched to asteroid 1979 OW Note there are a quite a few other cases where a non-numbered asteroid with only a systematic designation (such as 2001 OG108) turned out to be a comet.
		This led to a few cases where asteroids had to be renamed.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_noteworthy_asteroids (1098 words)

	List of noteworthy asteroids - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Prior to this, asteroids are known only by their systematic name or provisional designation, such as "1950 DA".
		Asteroids with orbital inclinations greater than 90° orbit in a retrograde direction.
		High-inclination asteroids are either Mars-crossers (probably in the process of being ejected from the solar system) or damocloids.
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	Asteroid information - Search.com
		In reality asteroids, even in the main belt, are spaced extremely far apart (even so, they can still be a risk to ships travelling at high speeds).
		Moreover, depictions of the Asteroid Belt as The New Frontier clearly draw (sometimes explicitly) on the considerable literature of the Nineteenth-Century Frontier and the Wild West.
		And since (in nearly all stories) the asteroids are completely lifeless until the arrival of the humans, it is a New Frontier completely free of the moral taint of the brutal dispossession of the Native Americans in the original.
	www.search.com /reference/Asteroid (3586 words)

	Asteriod - Databank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is thought that asteroids are remnants of the protoplanetary disc, and in this region the incorporation of protoplanetary remnants into the planets was prevented by large gravitational perturbations induced by Jupiter during the formative period of the solar system.
		Moreover, depictions of the Asteroid Belt as The New Frontier clearly draw (sometimes explicitly) on the considerable literature of the Nineteenth-Century Frontier and the Wild West.
		And since (in nearly all stories) the asteroids are completely lifeless until the arrival of the humans, it is a New Frontier completely free of the moral taint of the brutal dispossession of the Native Americans in the original.
	www.notd-aftermath.com /databank/index.php?title=Asteriod (3930 words)

	ASTEROID FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The term "asteroid", meaning ''star-like'' (from the Greek ''asteroeides'', ''aster'' "star" + ''-eidos'' "form, shape"), was coined in 1802 by Sir William_Herschel shortly after Olbers discovered the second one, 2_Pallas, in late March of the same year, to describe their star-like appearance; the other then-known planets all show discs, by comparison.
		Ironically, the first asteroid, 1_Ceres, was not discovered by a member of the group, but rather by accident in 1801 by Giuseppe_Piazzi director, at the time, of the observatory of Palermo, in Sicily.
		Newly discovered asteroids are given a provisional_designation consisting of the year of discovery and an alphanumeric code, such as 2001 FH.
	www.witwik.com /asteroid (2873 words)

	The asteroids resource page - steroids - asteroid
		Asteroids are commonly asteroid data classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on asteroid mining the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
		Note that the proportion of known asteroid october asteroids falling into the various spectral types does not necessarily reflect the proportion of all asteroids that asteroid vesta are of that type; some types are easier to detect than others, biasing the asteroids and meteoroids totals.
		Although the IAU subsequently banned are there remains of asteroids in or on the moon's craters pet names as sources, eccentric asteroid asteroid and meteroid names are still being proposed and accepted, such as 6042 Cheshirecat, 9007 James Bond, or asteroid apophes 26858 Misterrogers.
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	Asteroid - ExampleProblems.com
		Most asteroids are believed to be remnants of the protoplanetary disc which were not incorporated into planets during the system's formation.
		The term "asteroid", meaning star-like (from the Greek asteroeides, aster "star" + -eidos "form, shape"), was coined in 1802 by Sir William Herschel shortly after Olbers discovered the second one, 2 Pallas, in late March of the same year, to describe their star-like appearance; the other then-known planets all show discs, by comparison.
		As of October 19, 2005, from a total of 299,733 minor planets with calculated orbits, 118,161 asteroids had been calculated well enough to be given official numbers and 12,712 of these had been officially given trivial names to go along with the numbers (at least 610 of which have names requiring diacritics).
	www.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/Asteroid (3333 words)

	List of asteroids - Space Wiki
		After discovery, asteroids generally receive a provisional designation (such as "1989 AC"), then a number (such as 4179), and finally (optionally) a name (such as "Toutatis"), in that order.
		Asteroids whose orbits are not (yet) precisely known are known by their provisional designation.
		In extreme cases, such as "lost" asteroids, there may be a considerable mismatch: for instance the high-numbered 69230 Hermes was originally discovered in 1937, but was lost until 2003.
	space.wikia.com /wiki/List_of_asteroids (412 words)

	NKJ Astronomy - By Navid, Kiran and Jason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflectThe vast majority of the asteroids are within the asteroid belt, with elliptical orbits between that of Mars and Jupiter.
		Asteroids are divided into groups and families based on their orbital characteristics.
		The first "nearby" photos of an asteroid were taken by the Galileo spacecraft of Gaspra and Ida (1991), while NEAR Shoemaker landed on Eros (2001).
	www.freewebs.com /kiranandjason2/asteroids.htm (311 words)

	Asteroid Summary
		Dozens of asteroids range from 200 to 300 kilometers (124 to 186 miles) in diameter, thousands are the size of a small city, and hundreds of billions are house-sized.
		Asteroids are small and distant, so even in telescopes they are only faint points of light gradually moving against the backdrop of the stars.
		Asteroids in the outer portion of the belt, beyond the soot line, tend to be rich in these materials.
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	Ceres: The Dwarf Planet - Out of the Shadows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		If other main belt asteroids could be proven to have attained a nearly round shape, then they too could be considered dwarf planets.
		While reconstructed Hubble images of asteroid 10 Hygiea seemed to point to it being spherical, newer light curve models point to a typical "potato asteroid".
		Thus based on current available information, all asteroids (other than Ceres) large enough to theoretically pull themselves into a nearly round shape have not, and therefore do not meet the criteria for being classified as a "Dwarf Planet".
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	List of reference tables - ExampleProblems.com
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	List of asteroids
		After discovery, asteroids generally receive a systematic name (such as "1989 AC"), then a number (such as 4179), and finally (optionally) a name (such as "Toutatis"), in that order.
		Asteroids whose orbits are not (yet) precisely known are known by their systematic name (see provisional designation).
		All of these have now been recovered; the last "lost" numbered asteroid was 719 Albert (although 1915 Quetzálcoatl and (3360) 1981 VA have not been seen since 1985 (see http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/LastUnusual.html), their orbits are known and close Earth approaches are due in 2062 and 2085 respectively).
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	List of noteworthy asteroids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Note there are a quite a few other cases where a non-numbered asteroid with only a systematic designation (such as 2001 OG108)turned out to be a comet.
		In earlier times, before the modern numbering and naming rules were in effect, asteroids were sometimes given numbers andnames before their orbits were precisely known.
		Most asteroids haverotation periods of less than 24 hours; however, 288 Glauke has a rotationperiod of about 50 days.
	www.therfcc.org /list-of-noteworthy-asteroids-78142.html (1003 words)

	LIST OF ASTEROIDS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For a smaller list of "interesting" asteroids, see List_of_noteworthy_asteroids.
		After discovery, asteroids generally receive a provisional_designation (such as "1989 AC"), then a number (such as 4179), and finally (optionally) a name (such as "Toutatis"), in that order.
		In extreme cases, such as "lost" asteroids, there may be a considerable mismatch: for instance the high-numbered 69230_Hermes was originally discovered in 1937, but was lost until 2003.
	www.witwib.com /List_of_asteroids (392 words)

	List of solar system objects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Numerous smaller rocky asteroids mostly lie in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
		See also List of noteworthy asteroids, List of asteroids for a longer list of asteroids.
		Natural satellite for a complete list of moons.
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