The quantity of numbered minor planets is now approaching half a million. Together with this Addendum, the sixth edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, which is the ...

In addition to its practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who, over two ...

The history and rapid development of minor planet dis In addition to citing the bibliographic source of the nam coveries constitute a fascinating story and one with a ing, we ...

According to a long-standing astronomical tradition, the naming of minor planets in the solar system is the privilege of the discoverers. Contrary to most other kinds of ...

An excursion through solar science, science history and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun's most stubborn secrets.