The following is a partial #listOfMinorPlanets, running from minor-planet number 1001 through 2000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on #JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the #MinorPlanetCenter.

The track left by the fast movement of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during half an hour on July 3th in a magnified zone of a stack of 19 original images taken with a 72 cm telescope from Deep Sky Chile at Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile - MPC X07. The inset shows better the faint path in the observing interval, and an arrow indicates the direction of motion. Object found and astrometrically measured by Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez (CSIC/IEEC)

WHY COMET #3I #ATLAS IS SO FAINT? We already contributed yesterday with astrometry to the #MinorPlanetCenter database, & Dr @joseptrigo.bsky.social @ice-csic.bsky.social explained it to Science In Action #BBCNews
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Image planned by Jorge A Vázquez #UCJC
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Possible new dwarf planet spotted near the edge of the solar system - Sight Magazine Scientists have identified an object about 700 kilometres wide inhabiting the outer reaches of the solar system that might be a dwarf planet.

Possible new dwarf planet spotted near the edge of the solar system @sightmagazine.bsky.social #dwarfplanet #KuiperBelt #2017OF201 #MinorPlanetCenter #InternationalAstronomicalUnion #SihaoCheng #InstituteforAdvancedStudy

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The #MinorPlanetCenter is the globally accepted authority on handling observations 🔭 and reports of new #asteroids ☄️, comets, and other small bodies 🚗 in the #SolarSystem : discovery of an unusual asteroid, 240,000 km from Earth […]