Near-Earth Object, Small Solar System Body, Centaur (Minor Planet), Kuiper Belt
VerPublishing
(2011-09-28
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ISBN-13:
978-613-8-60135-7
ISBN-10:
6138601351
EAN:
9786138601357
书籍语言:
英文
作品简介:
21677 Tylerlyon (1999 RO23) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro. Asteroids (from Greek ἀστήρ 'star' and εἶδος 'like, in form') are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.