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asteroid | | | | celestial body | | | | | | Also called planetoids or minor planets, the asteroids are tiny planets most of which orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The largest - and the first discovered - is Ceres, with a diameter of 1,003 km. It is estimated that there may altogether be no fewer than 40000. A few have very elliptical orbits and cross the orbits of several other (major) planets. One or two even have their own satellites (moons). | | | |
Bamberga | +8.14 | +11.41 | carbonaceous chondrite | | asteroid | larger than Pallas | i = 11°.2 | a = 2.80 AU, | < 0.05 | Asteroid with the darkest known surfaces in the solar system, the only minor planet known to have such a low albedo. | -has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press | 324 | e = 0.36, |