Template:List of minor planets/intro

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The following is a partial

JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements"[1] and data available from the Minor Planet Center.[2] Critical list information is also provided by the MPC,[2] unless otherwise specified from Lowell Observatory.[3] A detailed description of the table's columns and additional sources are given on the main page including a complete list of every page in this series, and a statistical break-up on the dynamical classification
of minor planets.

Also see the summary list of all named bodies in

Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union
.

  Near-Earth obj.     
MBA (inner)
 		  
MBA (outer)
 		  Centaur
  
Mars-crosser
 		  MBA (middle)     Jupiter trojan    Trans-Neptunian obj.
  Unclassified

References

  1. ^ "Small-Body Orbital Elements: Numbered Asteroids, ELEMENTS.NUMBR (64 MB)". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Data Available from the Minor Planet Center: Discovery circumstances of the numbered minor planets, NumberedMPs.txt (53 MB)". International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. November 2023.
  3. ^ "Critical Lists of Asteroids". Lowell Observatory. November 2023.
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