excludes planets, moons andcomets, but orbit the Sun. Most missions to minorplanets have been to asteroids or dwarf planets. Spacecraftvisits to minor planets...
all cometsand all minorplanets other than those that are dwarf planets. Thus SSSBs are: the comets; the classical asteroids, with the exception of the...
A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter,...
complete listofminorplanets in numerical order, see Listofminorplanets. Asteroids are given minorplanet numbers, but not all minorplanets are asteroids...
part of the sample is exhibited at the Hall of Meteorites of the National Museum of Natural History (Washington, DC). Listofminorplanetsandcomets visited...
planets, the dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, andcomets) together comprise less than 0.002% of the Solar System's total mass. The Sun is composed of...
'star-shaped') for the smaller bodies and began to distinguish them as minorplanets rather than major planets. With the discovery of Pluto in 1930, most astronomers...