Asteroid Belt, Asteroid Family, Solar System, Trojan (Astronomy)
VolvPress
(26.08.2011
)
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ISBN-13:
978-613-7-97585-5
ISBN-10:
6137975851
EAN:
9786137975855
Buchsprache:
Englisch
Klappentext:
6121 Plachinda (1987 RU3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1987 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. 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.