He co-discovered the Apollo asteroid 1620 Geographos, and also discovered Planetary Nebula M2-9.

Geographos is a Mars-crosser asteroid and a near-Earth object belonging to the Apollos.

Geographos is an S-type asteroid, meaning that it is highly reflective and composed of nickel-iron mixed with iron-and magnesium-silicates.

Geographos was to be explored by the U. S .' s Clementine mission ; however, a malfunctioning thruster ended the mission before it could approach the asteroid.

253 Mathilde () is a main-belt asteroid about 50 km in diameter that was discovered by Johann Palisa in 1885.

1862 Apollo () is a Q-type asteroid, discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1932, but lost and not recovered until 1973.

216 Kleopatra () is a main-belt asteroid.

3352 McAuliffe () is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid which was discovered by Norman G. Thomas on February 6, 1981.

2889 Brno () is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1981.

36 Atalante () is a large, dark main-belt asteroid.

38 Leda () is a large, dark main-belt asteroid.

46 Hestia () is a large, dark main-belt asteroid.

49 Pales () is a large, dark main-belt asteroid.

53 Kalypso () is a large and very dark main belt asteroid.

66 Maja () is a dark, quite large main-belt asteroid.

112 Iphigenia () is a fairly large and exceedingly dark main-belt asteroid.

140 Siwa () is a large and dark main-belt asteroid.

5261 Eureka () is the first asteroid discovered that turned out to be a Mars trojan asteroid.

26858 Misterrogers () is a main-belt asteroid named after children's television host Fred Rogers.

34351 Decatur () is the name of an asteroid that was discovered in September 2000 by L. Ball at Emerald Lane Observatory in Decatur, Alabama.

4932 Texstapa () is an asteroid that was discovered on March 9, 1984 by Brian A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.

An asteroid, 4692 SIMBAD () is named in its honour.

This fiery swath was actually only a belt of minor planets, almost like the asteroid belt in the original Solar System.

* In 1979, an asteroid — 1979 Sakharov — was named after him.

For example, the asteroid 4 Vesta was discovered in this constellation in 1807.

This ruled out classification as an asteroid, and they decided this was the ninth planet that Lowell had predicted.

Before the comet was captured by Jupiter, it was probably a short-period comet with an aphelion just inside Jupiter's orbit, and a perihelion interior to the asteroid belt.

Launched on 24 October 1998, the Deep Space mission carried out a flyby of asteroid 9969 Braille, which was selected as the mission's science target.

While the flyby of the asteroid was a partial success, the encounter with the comet retrieved valuable information.

The flyby of the asteroid 9969 Braille was only a partial success.

Deep Space 1 was intended to perform the flyby at at only from the asteroid.

This, plus Braille's lower albedo, meant that the asteroid was not bright enough for the autonav to focus the camera in the right direction, and the picture shoot was delayed by almost an hour.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named in his honour.

The NEAR Shoemaker mission in 2000 orbited the large near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros, and was even successfully landed there, though it had not been designed with this maneuver in mind.

In 1996, an asteroid ( 9793 Torvalds ) was named after him.

The asteroid 22740 Rayleigh was named in his honour on 1 June 2007.

This was predicated by an attempt on Luthor's part to link Superman to a kryptonite asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth, claiming that he had ' evidence '- which he declined to share while claiming that it would make the public laud his actions if they knew it-that the asteroid was being drawn to Earth by Superman, offering a billion dollar reward for Superman's capture that pitted Superman and Batman against an army of villains, all of whom they defeated.

He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas.

Originally intended to be an outer-space variation on Lord of the Flies, the project at first was titled " Asteroid Ship Icarus " and had a multinational teenage crew journeying through space in a hollowed-out asteroid in search of the planet Iscandar.

, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was found at Bode's predicted position in 1801.

Hektor, like Achilles, belonged to the swarm (" ahead " of the planet in its orbit ), while Patroclus was the first asteroid known to reside at the Lagrangian point (" behind " the planet ).