The Maria asteroids are a group of asteroids that orbit the
Asteroids in this Family
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Maria family — The Maria asteroids are a group of asteroids that orbit the sun with distances between about 2.5 and 2.706 AU. Asteroids in this family typically have an inclination of 12 to 17 degrees.[1] The family gets its name from the asteroid 170 Maria.… … Wikipedia
Maria Zuber — Maria T. Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she also leads the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen NASA… … Wikipedia
List of asteroids named after people — This is a list of asteroids named after people, both real and fictional.cience Mathematicians *1001 Gaussia (Carl Friedrich Gauss) *1005 Arago (François Arago) *1006 Lagrangea (Joseph Louis Lagrange) *1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky) *1859 … Wikipedia
List of named asteroids (L-N) — A List of named asteroids ordered alphabetically from L to N.See also: *List of named asteroids (A C) *List of named asteroids (D E) *List of named asteroids (F H) *List of named asteroids (I K) *List of named asteroids (O R) *List of named… … Wikipedia
List of Mars trojan asteroids — The L5 group (shown in green) of Asteroids on the orbit of Mars (Mars is shown in red). The L4 group is the light blue region also on Mars orbit. The Mars trojans are a group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Mars around the … Wikipedia
Asteroid (disambiguation) — Asteroid may refer to:*Asteroid, the astronomical object; this is the primary definition. Specific variants include the following: ** Amor asteroid ** Apollo asteroid ** Apohele asteroid ** Arjuna asteroid ** Aten asteroid ** Binary asteroid **… … Wikipedia
875 Nymphe — Name Name Nymphe Designation 1917 CF Discovery Discoverer Max Wolf Discovery date May 19, 1917 Discovery site Heidelberg … Wikipedia
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List of Russian people — The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod, featuring the statues and reliefs of the most celebrated people in the first 1000 years of Russian history … Wikipedia
243 Ida — Galileo image of 243 Ida. The tiny dot to the right is its moon, Dactyl. Discovery[1] and designation … Wikipedia
