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This is a list of named minor planets in an alphabetical, case-insensitive order grouped by the first letter of their name. [a] [b] New namings, typically proposed by the discoverer and approved by the Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the International Astronomical Union, are published nowadays in their WGSBN Bulletin and summarized in a dedicated list several times a year.
Before 2006, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were considered as planets. Below is a partial list of these mnemonics: "Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Needs, Perhaps" – The structure of this sentence, which is current in the 1950s, suggests that it may have originated before Pluto's discovery.
This is a partial list of named minor planets, containing all those starting with the letter W, as of 1 July 2024. It is ordered in a case-insensitive, alphabetical manner and contains a total of 557 entries. Grey minor planets have no article and redirect to the list of minor planets instead (see List of minor planets § Main index). [1] [2
These are lists of planets.A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk.
This is a partial list of named minor planets, containing all those starting with the letter O, as of 1 July 2024. It is ordered in a case-insensitive, alphabetical manner and contains a total of 491 entries. Grey minor planets have no article and redirect to the list of minor planets instead (see List of minor planets § Main index). [1] [2