This is a list of
minor planets named after animals and plants.
Animals
Plants
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List of minor planets
The following is a list of numbered minor planets in ascending numerical order. With the exception of comets, minor planets are all small bodies in the Solar System, including asteroids, distant objects and dwarf planets. The catalog consists ...
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List of minor planets named after people
This is a list of minor planets named after people, both real and fictional.
Science
Astronomers
Amateur
*340 Eduarda (Heinrich Eduard von Lade, German)
*792 Metcalfia (Joel Hastings Metcalf, American)
* 828 Lindemannia (Adolph Friedrich Lindem ...
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List of minor planets named after places
This is a list of minor planets named after places, organized by continent.
Africa
* 1193 Africa (Africa)
Countries of Africa
* 1197 Rhodesia (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe)
* 1213 Algeria (Algeria)
* 1268 Libya (Libya)
* 1278 Kenya (Kenya)
*1279 Ugand ...
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List of minor planets named after rivers
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This is a list of minor planets named after rivers, organized by continent.
Africa
* 1032 Pafuri (Pafuri Triangle, South Africa)
* 1264 Letaba (Letaba River, South Africa)
* 1305 Pongola (Pongola River, South A ...
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List of named minor planets (numerical)
This is a list of named minor planets in numerical order. , it contains a total of 23,542 named bodies. Minor planets for which no article exists redirect to the list of minor planets ''(see )''.
Statistics
See also
* List of minor ...
and
(alphabetical)
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Meanings of minor planet names
This is a list of minor planets which have been officially named by the Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The list consists of partial pages, each covering a number range of 1,000 bodies ci ...
References
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[{{cite web
, title = Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List
, work = Minor Planet Center
, date = 31 January 2018
, url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPNames.html
, accessdate = 6 February 2018]
External links
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Google books
Animals
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in ...
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 ...