* 1615 Bardwell, an asteroid discovered at Goethe Link Observatory

1578 Kirkwood, also known as 1944 DF, 1949 TF, 1951 AT and 1952 FK, is an asteroid which was discovered January 10, 1951 at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program.

Nearly 7000 photographic plates for asteroid orbit studies were taken with a 10-inch astrographic camera at the Goethe Link Observatory.

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 ).

* 5020 Asimov, an asteroid discovered in 1981, named after Isaac Asimov

The asteroid 1604 Tombaugh, discovered in 1931, is named after him.

* 1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

The asteroid 6433 Enya, discovered on 18 November 1978 by A. Mrkos at Klet, is named after her.

Despite suffering from antenna problems, Galileo conducted the first asteroid flyby near 951 Gaspra and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around the asteroid 243 Ida.

The spacecraft discovered Ida has a moon Dactyl, the first discovery of a natural satellite orbiting an asteroid.

* 3768 Monroe, a mainbelt asteroid discovered in 1937

* 2663 Miltiades, main-belt asteroid discovered in 1960

While eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain " planets " under modern definition, some celestial bodies, such as Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta ( each an object in the Solar asteroid belt ) and Pluto ( the first-discovered trans-Neptunian object ), that were once considered planets by the scientific community are no longer viewed as such.

Among the possibilities are a large asteroid greatly disturbed in its orbit by close approach to a major planet such as Jupiter, or it may be one of many long-period planetary objects yet to be discovered, or a bright cometary object.

The term " Trojan asteroid " is normally understood to specifically mean the Jupiter Trojans since the first Trojans were discovered near Jupiter's orbit and Jupiter currently has by far the most known Trojans.

The first recognized discovery of a Trojan occurred in February 1906, when astronomer Max Wolf of Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory discovered an asteroid at the Lagrangian point of the Sun – Jupiter system, later named 588 Achilles.

* October 1 – The main-belt asteroid 2404 Antarctica was discovered by Antonin Mrkos at Klet ', South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic.

* December 22 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

* 2542 Calpurnia, an asteroid discovered by E. Bowell on 11 February 1980

26 Proserpina is a Main belt asteroid in diameter, which was discovered by Robert Luther in 1853.

An asteroid 14966 Jurijvega, discovered on July 30, 1997, is named after him.

* 1970 Sumeria, an asteroid discovered in 1954 by Miguel Itzigsohn.

* 7232 Nabokov, an asteroid discovered on October 20, 1985

Mg-rich olivine has also been discovered in meteorites, the Moon, Mars, in the dust of comet Wild 2, within the core of comet Tempel 1, falling into infant stars, as well as on asteroid 25143 Itokawa.

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

* 2121 Sevastopol-an asteroid discovered in 1971 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova and named after the city.