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	Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asteroids are commonly classified into groups based on the characteristics of their orbits and on the details of the spectrum of sunlight they reflect.
		Although the IAU subsequently banned pet names as sources, eccentric asteroid names are still being proposed and accepted, such as 6042 Cheshirecat, 9007 James Bond, or 26858 Misterrogers.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asteroid (3659 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pronunciation of asteroid names
		This page alphabetically lists the first thousand asteroids to be numbered, which are mostly in the main belt.
		English Pronunciation Key for Astronomical Bodies This spelling pronunciation system is used on the planetoids and moons of the solar system pages.
		113 Amalthea is a fairly typical rocky Main belt asteroid orbiting in the inner regions of the belt.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pronunciation-of-asteroid-names (3298 words)

	Amor asteroid - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor.
		Amor I asteroids that have semi-major axes very close to Earth's (such as 1992 JD) can be considered Arjuna asteroids because they have very low eccentricities and thus Earth-like orbits.
		An Outer Earth-Grazer asteroid is an asteroid which is normally beyond the Earth, but which can get closer to the Sun than the Earth at its furthest from the Sun (its aphelion, 1.0167 au), but not closer than Earth at its closest (its perihelion, 0.9833 au).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Amor_asteroid (1126 words)

	Trojan asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As originally defined, Trojan asteroids have a semi-major axis between 5.05 AU and 5.40 AU, and lie in elongated, curved regions around the two Lagrangian points 60° ahead and behind of Jupiter.
		Barnard is now believed to have made the first observation of a Trojan asteroid, in 1904, but the significance of his observation was not noted at the time.
		Trojan asteroids may also have played a key role in the formation of the Moon, for which the leading theory states that it formed from the debris of a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized planet very early in the history of the Solar system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trojan_asteroid (676 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Asteroid
		The vast majority of the asteroids are within the asteroid belt, with elliptical orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter.
		As of May 23, 2005, from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculated orbits, 99,906 asteroids had been calculated well enough to be given official numbers and 12,345 of these had been officially named (598 of which have names requiring diacriticals).
		On rare occasions, an asteroid's provisional designation may become used as a name in itself: the still unnamed (15760) 1992 QB1 gave its name to a group of asteroids which became known as cubewanos.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Asteroid (2901 words)

	Asteroid Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ AlienArtifacts.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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).
		The Minor Planet Circular (MPC) of October 19, 2005 was a historical one, as it saw numbered asteroids jump from 99947 to 118161, causing a small "Y2k" like crisis for various automated data services —up until then, only five digits were allowed in most data formats for the asteroid number.
		The asteroid moon Petit-Prince was named after the character.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Asteroid (3474 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		near-Earth asteroids are the Apollos, Amors, and the
		For some time only female names were used; Alexander von Humboldt was the first man to have an asteroid named after him, but his name was feminized to 54 Alexandra.
		Meteor depicts an asteroid named Orpheus hurtling toward Earth after its orbit is deflected by a comet.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Asteroid.html (2708 words)

	90482 Orcus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Since it shares a similar size and orbit to that of Pluto, it too must be named after a deity of the underworld.
		In accordance with IAU rules, the discoverers' suggested name of Orcus was approved and published November 22, 2004.
		Orcus is both another name for the Greek deity Hades and a separate god of the dead in Roman mythology.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/90482_Orcus (296 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: S-type asteroid
		S-type asteroids are of a silicaceous (stony) composition, hence the name.
		The composition of these asteroids is similar to a variety of stony meteorites which share similar spectral characteristics.
		This whole "S" assemblage of asteroids is spectrally quite distinct from the carbonaceous C-group and the mostly metallic X-group.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=S-type_asteroid (480 words)

	Rxpress - Apohele asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They have not only their perihelion at less than one AU (within Earth's orbit), but also their aphelion; that is, their entire orbit is within Earth's.
		In great part because of the search methods used to look for asteroids, there are currently no known asteroids with orbits contained within Venus' or Mercury's (e.g., Vulcanoids).
		The name Apohele is still under a bit of debate, since most asteroid subclasses are named for prominent members of that group (for example, Aten asteroids are named for 2062 Aten, the first such asteroid discovered), whereas there is no asteroid named "Apohele".
	www.rxpresspharmacy.com /wiki/index/Apohele_asteroid (196 words)

	Trojan asteroid
		As of August 2005, the number of known Trojan asteroids is 1108 at L4 and 718 at L5.
		Following Wolf's lead these asteroids were given names associated with the Iliad — in fact, those in the L4 point are named after Greek heroes of the Iliad (the "Greek node" or "Achilles group"), and those at the L5 point are named after the heroes of Troy (the "Trojan node").
		However, 617 Patroclus (the asteroid) was the first discovered asteroid at the L5 point, and was named before the Greece/Troy rule was devised.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Astro/TrojanAsteroid.html (598 words)

	(29075)_1950_DA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asteroid 1950 DA is an asteroid considered to be the near Earth object with the highest known probability of crashing into Earth, according to the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale.
		However, for a few days in December 2004 it was temporarily surpassed by 2004 MN This Mars-crosser asteroid was first discovered on February 23, 1950 by Carl A. Wirtanen at Lick Observatory; it was observed for 17 days and then faded from view for half a century.
		Radar observations were made at the Goldstone and Arecibo Observatory from March 3 to 7, 2001 during the asteroid's 7.8 Gm approach to the Earth (a distance 21 times larger than that separating the Earth and Moon).
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=(29075)_1950_DA (302 words)

	biology - Asteroid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As of February 24, 2005, from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculated orbits 99,906 asteroids had been calculated well enough to be given official numbers and 12,198 of these had been officially named (598 of which have names requiring diacriticals).
		The observer of the final apparition is declared a discoverer, and he gets the honour of naming the asteroid (subject to the approval of the International Astronomical Union) once it is numbered.
		Between all of the automated systems, 2701 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered [4] including over 600 more than 1 km in diameter.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Asteroid (2980 words)

	infos about: asteroid names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Full list of asteroid names Cosmic Log: Rating the asteroid risk Some names had to be rejected this time around because they took the form of unpronounceable acronyms, running afoul of the IAU's rules...
		of citations for all the named minor planets is given in the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by L. Schmadel and published by Springer-Verlag.
		Asteroid Introduction The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.
	www.kingsofvancouver.com /asteroid_names.html (191 words)

	Pronunciation of asteroid names: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This page alphabetically lists the first thousand asteroids (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) to be numbered, which are mostly in the main belt.
		Pronunciation of Trojan asteroids (additional info and facts about Pronunciation of Trojan asteroids)
		Pronunciation of Centaurs and Kujper Belt Objects (additional info and facts about Pronunciation of Centaurs and Kujper Belt Objects)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/pronunciation_of_asteroid_names.htm (3478 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: G-type asteroid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		G-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group.
		The most notable asteroid in this class is 1 Ceres.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, G-type asteroid; all previous versions may be viewed here.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=G-type_asteroid (290 words)

	Articles - Vulcanoid asteroid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Vulcanoids are hypothetical asteroids that may orbit in a dynamically stable zone between 0.08 and 0.21 astronomical units from the Sun, well within the orbit of Mercury.
		They take their name from the hypothetical planet Vulcan, which eighteenth-century astronomers fruitlessly searched for to explain the excess precession of Mercury's perihelion.
		Vulcanoid asteroids, if they exist, would be a special subclass of Apohele asteroids.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Vulcanoid_asteroid?mySession=b2b2e238d455712c79f3b23d36defbd2 (359 words)

	86 Semele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		86 Semele (sem'-i-lee) is a large and very dark main belt asteroid.
		It was his first and only asteroid discovery.
		It is named after Semele, the mother of Dionysus in Greek mythology.
	www.1bx.com /en/86_Semele.htm (84 words)

	Trojan_asteroid
		There are currently (July 2004) 1679 known Trojan asteroids — 1051 at L
		The largest of the Trojans is 624 Hektor, measuring 370×195 km.
		Over time, this term has come to be more generally applied to any planetoidal body at the triangular Lagrangian point of any two bodies — besides Jupiter's Trojans, Mars and Neptune have one Trojan each, plus there are Trojan moons around Saturn (Telesto–Tethys–Calypso and Polydeuces–Dione–Helene).
	www.condominiumwebsites.com /search.php?title=Trojan_asteroid (509 words)

	Observing Links
		Asteroidal predictions for the Western Hemisphere, upcoming events, 2004 events, planetary transits, how to report an occultation to IOTA, Occult software, Regional information on events, tips for video and Photoelectric equipment required to record occultations, archives, and links to relevant web sites.
		Discusses the nature of stars, the constellations and star names, stars and their spectral classes, Classical star atlases, the Greek alphabet and stars, and images of the stars.
		The catalog includes orbital Period information, Novae coordinates and charts, with finder charts for these objects, HST and ground-based CCD charts, GCVS names, coordinates, Galactic latitude, and the type of variability of the object, year of outburst, magnitude range, coordinate, type, chart, and spectrum references, Space-based observations, and other names.
	astronomywebguide.com /links_observing.html (7174 words)

	Trojan asteroid - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Theory of the Trojan group of asteroids (Yale University.
		Theory of the Trojan group of asteroids: Chapter 1, Literal development of the theory (Transactions of the Astronomical observatory of Yale University)
		Theory of the Trojan group of asteroids;: Conclusion of chapter I and chapters II to VI, development of the theory and applications, (Transactions of the...
	www.unipedia.info /Trojan_asteroid.html (633 words)

	saro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian standard languages are all based on the neo-štokavian dialect.
		Its name comes from the form for interrogatory pronoun "what", which is "što" in štokavian dialect.
		The primary subdivisions of štokavian are based on 2 principles: one is whether the subdialect is old-štokavian or neo-štokavian, and the different ways the old Slavic phoneme jat has been changed.
	saro-london.blogspot.com (1893 words)

	55 Pandora - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		55 Pandora is a quite large and very bright Main belt asteroid.
		It is named after Pandora, the first woman in Greek mythology.
		Not to be confused with Saturn's moon Pandora.
	en.freepedia.org /55_Pandora.html (91 words)

	Science - Research - Multnomah County Library
		This site includes a collection of pictures and information that can be searched by Latin name or common name.
		It also provides a dinosaur names dictionary, pronunciation guide and maps of the ancient earth.
		Allows you to select a state, and then a county within the state, and get both information on what's grown in the county as well as stats from the 1997 Census of Agriculture for that county.
	www.multcolib.org /ref/science.html (1991 words)

	174 Phaedra
		174 Phaedra is a sizable, rocky main belt asteroid.
		It was discovered by J. Watson on September 2, 1877 and named after Phaedra, the tragic lovelorn queen in Greek mythology.
		Lightcurve data obtained from Phaedra indicates a rather irregular or elongated body.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Astro/174Phaedra.html (97 words)

	168_Sibylla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		168 Sibylla is a large Main belt asteroid.
		It is very dark and composed of primitive carbonaceous materials.
		It is a Cybele asteroid, orbiting beyond most of the Main belt asteroids.
	www.condominiumwebsites.com /search.php?title=168_Sibylla (53 words)

	Damocloid asteroid - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Damocloids are asteroids such as 5335 Damocles and 1996 PW that have long-period highly eccentric orbits typical of periodic comets such as 1P/Halley, but without showing a cometary coma or tail.
		The object 2001 OG was thought to be a Damocloid, but as it approached perihelion it began to display cometary activity and was thus renamed Comet C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS).
		They are believed to originate from the Oort cloud.
	www.unipedia.info /Damocloid.html (141 words)

	ipedia.com: ASCII Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asteroid 3568 ASCII, named in honour of the ASCII system
		Bob Bemer's home page some historical notes about ASCII from one of its designers
		A pronunciation guide for ASCII characters (some are more whimsical than others; see especially the end of the list)
	www.ipedia.com /ascii.html (1907 words)

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