#MINI ORBITER BY PLANET TIME ARCHIVE#
#MINI ORBITER BY PLANET TIME CODE#

The MPC may credit one or several astronomers, a survey or similar program, or even the observatory site with the discovery. The information given for a minor planet includes a permanent and provisional designation ( § Designation), a citation that links to the meanings of minor planet names (only if named), the discovery date, location, and credited discoverers ( § Discovery and § Discoverers), a category with a more refined classification than the principal grouping represented by the background color ( § Category), a mean-diameter, sourced from JPL's SBDB or otherwise calculated estimates in italics ( § Diameter), and a reference (Ref) to the corresponding pages at MPC and JPL SBDB. For an overview of all existing partial lists, see § Main index.

#MINI ORBITER BY PLANET TIME ARCHIVE#

The data is sourced from the Minor Planet Center (MPC) and expanded with data from the JPL SBDB (mean-diameter), Johnston's archive (sub-classification) and others (see detailed field descriptions below).

The list of minor planets consists of more than 600 partial lists, each containing 1000 minor planets grouped into 10 tables. For minor planets grouped by a particular aspect or property, see § Specific lists.

While all main-belt asteroids with a diameter above 10 kilometers have already been discovered, there might be as many as 10 trillion 1-meter-sized asteroids or larger out to the orbit of Jupiter and more than a trillion minor planets in the Kuiper belt of which hundreds are likely dwarf planets. Rubin Observatory (LSST) will discover another 5 million minor planets during the next ten years-almost a tenfold increase from current numbers. It is expected that the upcoming survey by the Vera C. (4596) 1981 QB and 616689 Yihangyiyang are currently the lowest-numbered unnamed and highest-numbered named minor planets, respectively. There are also 23,280 named minor planets mostly after people, places and figures from mythology and fiction, which account for only 3.8% of all numbered catalog entries. In terms of numbers, the most prolific discoverers are Spacewatch, LINEAR, MLS, NEAT and CSS. There are more than a thousand different minor-planet discoverers observing from a growing list of registered observatories.

#MINI ORBITER BY PLANET TIME CODE#

The vast majority (97.3%) of minor planets are asteroids from the asteroid belt (the catalog uses a color code to indicate a body's dynamical classification). The catalog's first object is 1 Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801, while its best-known entry is Pluto, listed as 134340 Pluto. As of July 2022, there are 616,690 numbered minor planets (secured discoveries) out of a total of 1,211,765 observed small Solar System bodies, with the remainder being unnumbered minor planets and comets. Every year, the Minor Planet Center, which operates on behalf of the International Astronomical Union, publishes thousands of newly numbered minor planets in its Minor Planet Circulars (see index). The catalog consists of hundreds of pages, each containing 1000 minor planets. With the exception of comets, minor planets are all small bodies in the Solar System, including asteroids, distant objects and dwarf planets. The following is a list of numbered minor planets in ascending numerical order. unnumbered bodies (not part of this list).Growing number of minor planets since 1995:

Mini orbiter by planet time