Minor Planet Catalogue | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/06/2019

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00:02:29 1 Description of partial lists
00:04:11 1.1 Example
00:05:24 1.2 Designation
00:07:33 1.3 Discoverers
00:08:43 1.4 Discovery site
00:09:23 1.5 Category
00:14:12 1.6 Diameter
00:14:59 2 Main index
00:15:30 2.1 Numberings 1–100,000
00:15:41 2.2 Numberings 100,001–200,000
00:15:52 2.3 Numberings 200,001–300,000
00:16:04 2.4 Numberings 300,001–400,000
00:16:16 2.5 Numberings 400,001–500,000
00:16:28 2.6 Numberings 500,001–600,000
00:16:39 3 Specific lists
00:18:12 4 See also



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The following is a list of numbered minor planets in numerical order. Minor planets are all small bodies in the Solar System, including dwarf planets, with the exception of comets. The catalog consists of hundreds of pages, each containing 1000 minor planets. Every year, tens of thousands of newly numbered minor planets are published in the Minor Planet Circular by the Minor Planet Center on behalf of the International Astronomical Union (see index). As of May 2019, there are 541,128 numbered minor planets (secured discoveries) out of a total of 794,832 observed bodies, with the remainder being unnumbered minor planets.The catalog's first object is 1 Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi on January 1, 1801, while its best-known entry is Pluto, listed as 134340 Pluto. The vast majority (97%) of minor planets are asteroids from the asteroid belt (the catalog uses a color code to indicate a body's dynamical classification). There are more than a thousand different minor-planet discoverers observing from a growing list of registered observatories. In terms of numbers, the most prolific discoverers are LINEAR, Spacewatch, MLS, NEAT and CSS. There are also 21,922 named minor planets mostly after people, places and figures from mythology and fiction. Approximately 96% of all numbered catalog entries remain unnamed. (3708) 1974 FV1 and 518523 Bryanshumaker are currently the lowest-numbered unnamed and highest-numbered named minor planets, respectively.It is expected that the upcoming survey by the LSST will discover another 5 million minor planets during the next ten years—a tenfold increase from current numbers. While all asteroids with a diameter above 10 kilometers have already been discovered, there might be as many as 10 trillion 1-meter-sized asteroids or larger out to the orbit of Jupiter; and more than a trillion minor planets in the Kuiper belt of which hundreds are likely dwarf planets. For minor planets grouped by a particular aspect or property, see § Specific lists.