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6R10DB9 is a small asteroid, with a diameter of about one meter, temporarily orbiting the Earth, with a period of about three months. Due to the small size of the object, confirmation whether it is in fact a natural body, and therefore a second Moon, is not expected until the object's next perigee in June 2007. Even if it confirmed as natural, the "second Moon" designation would only be temporary. It would likely be classified as a Near-Earth Asteroid or possibly an Aten asteroid. It has been suggested that minor planet be merged into this article or section. ...
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Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ...
Apparent magnitude: up to -12. ...
Perigee is the point at which an object in orbit around the Earth makes its closest approach to the Earth. ...
Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earths orbit. ...
The Aten asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids, named after the first of the group to be discovered (2062 Aten, discovered January 7, 1976 by Eleanor F. Helin). ...
The object was discovered 14 Sept 2006 by the 27-inch Schmidt camera of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. Preliminary orbital calculations indicated it was captured by Earth's gravity from solar orbit of a period of about 11 months, which is similar to that of many spent rocket boosters dating to the Apollo program of the 1960s and early 1970s. However, later analysis shows the body is not affected by the pressures of solar radiation and must be a dense rocky body or at least regularly shaped. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for near_earth objects. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Area Ranked 6th - Total 113,998 sq mi (295,254 km²) - Width 310 miles (500 km) - Length 400 miles (645 km) - % water 0. ...
Gravity is a force of attraction that acts between bodies that have mass. ...
Description Role: Earth and Lunar Orbit Crew: 3; CDR, CM pilot, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 36. ...
The Yarkovsky-OKeefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect, or YORP effect for short, is a second-order variation on the Yarkovsky effect which causes a small body (such as an asteroid) to spin up or down. ...
The object is predicted to make four Earth orbits before being ejected after the June 2007 perigee. At that perigee, it will actually dip inside the Moon's orbit and more accurate measurements can be made.
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3753 Cruithne (pronounced ) is an asteroid in orbit around the Sun. ...
A natural satellite is an object that orbits a planet or other body larger than itself and which is not man-made. ...
External Links - Earth's "Other Moon" on Skytonight.com
Vulcanoids · Near-Earth asteroids · Main belt · Jupiter Trojans · Centaurs · Damocloids · Comets · Trans-Neptunians (Kuiper belt • Scattered disc • Oort cloud) A Small Solar System Body (SSSB) is a term defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union to describe objects in the Solar System that are neither planets nor dwarf planets: [1] This encompasses: all minor planets apart from the dwarf planets, : the classical asteroids, (except for 1 Ceres, the...
Vulcanoids are hypothetical asteroids that may orbit in a dynamically stable zone between 0. ...
Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earths orbit. ...
For details on the physical properties of bodies in the asteroid belt see Asteroid and Main-belt comet. ...
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 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. ...
Comet Hale-Bopp Comet McNaught as seen from Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia on 23 January 2007 A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both primarily from the effects of...
A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) is any object in the solar system that orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. ...
Artists rendering of the Kuiper Belt and hypothetical more distant Oort cloud. ...
The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of our solar system, thinly populated by icy planetoids known as scattered disk objects (SDOs), a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). ...
This image is an artists rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper Belt. ...
For other objects and regions, see Asteroid groups and families, Binary asteroids, Asteroid moons and the Solar System.
For a complete listing, see List of asteroids. See also Pronunciation of asteroid names and Meanings of asteroid names. 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl An asteroid moon is an asteroid that orbits another asteroid. ...
Major features of the Solar System (not to scale; from left to right): Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, the asteroid belt, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars. ...
This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of the asteroids, in sequential order. ...
This page alphabetically lists the first thousand asteroids to be numbered, which are mostly in the main belt. ...
This is a list of named asteroids, with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named after. ...
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