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4923 Clarke is an asteroid. This particular asteroid is named after Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke once expressed disappointment that he did not receive asteroid 2001 as his namesake (that honour went to Albert Einstein). Jump to: navigation, search An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sir Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British author and inventor, most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001 Einstein is an asteroid discovered on March 5, 1973. ... Jump to: navigation, search Albert Einstein, by Yousuf Karsh Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 â€“ April 18, 1955) was a German-born Jewish theoretical physicist of profound genius, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. ...

4923 Clarke was discovered on March 2, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus. Jump to: navigation, search March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Schelte J. Bobby Bus is an Assistant Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. ...

Categories: Asteroid stubs | Main Belt asteroids Jump to: navigation, search Minor planets, or planetoids are minor bodies of the Solar system orbiting the Sun (or of other planetary systems orbiting other stars) that are larger than meteoroids (the largest of which might be taken to be around 10 meters or so across) but smaller than major... Vulcanoids are hypothetical asteroids that may orbit in a dynamically stable zone between 0. ... The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. ... Jump to: navigation, search Near-Earth objects (NEO) are asteroids, comets and large meteoroids whose orbit intersects Earths orbit and which may therefore pose a collision danger. ... Image of the Trojan asteroids in front of and behind Jupiter along its orbital path. ... The centaurs are a class of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune, named after the mythical race of centaurs. ... Damocloids are asteroids such as 5335 Damocles and (16746) 1996 PW that have long-period highly eccentric orbits typical of periodic comets such as 1P/Halley, but without showing a cometary coma or tail. ... Photo of the comet Hale-Bopp above a tree. ... A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) is any object in the solar system which orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. ... Artists rendering of the Kuiper Belt and more distant Oort cloud. ... The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of our solar system, thinly populated by a subset of the family of trans-Neptunian objects known as scattered disk objects (SDOs). ... Jump to: navigation, search This image is an artists rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper Belt. ... 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl An asteroid moon is an asteroid that orbits another asteroid. ... Jump to: navigation, search Presentation of the solar system (not to scale) The solar system is the retinue of objects gravitationally bound to our Sun. ... This is a list of numbered asteroids, in sequential order. ... This page alphabetically lists the first thousand asteroids to be numbered, which are mostly in the main belt. ...