Near-Earth Object, Small Solar System Body, Centaur (Minor Planet), Kuiper Belt
UtilPublishing
(26.08.2011
)
gutscheinfähig
ISBN-13:
978-613-7-97803-0
ISBN-10:
6137978036
EAN:
9786137978030
Buchsprache:
Englisch
Klappentext:
5993 Tammydickinson (1981 EU22) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.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.