Near-Earth Object, Small Solar System Body, Centaur (Minor Planet), Kuiper Belt
VerPublishing
(28.09.2011
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ISBN-13:
978-613-8-59454-3
ISBN-10:
6138594541
EAN:
9786138594543
Lingua del libro:
Inglese
Risvolto di copertina:
2266 Tchaikovsky (1974 VK) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on November 12, 1974 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. 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.