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minor planet
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Minor planet
A
minor planet
is an
astronomical object
in direct
orbit
around
the Sun
that is neither a
planet
nor exclusively classified as a
comet
. Minor planets can be
dwarf planets
,
asteroids
,
trojans
,
centaurs
,
Kuiper belt
objects, and other
trans-Neptunian objects
. The orbits of 692,604 minor planets were archived at the
Minor Planet Center
by 2015. The first minor planet to be discovered was
Ceres
in 1801.
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