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Minor Planet Center

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Nov 21, 2025

Is the A1 Atlas referenced in any scientific catalogs or astronomical databases?

Available catalogs and databases do list objects named "ATLAS" — primarily comets and survey discoveries credited to the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) — and specific ATLAS-desi...

Nov 21, 2025

dose the earth have one mooon

Earth still has one true natural moon — the familiar 2,159-mile-wide satellite about 239,000 miles away — but astronomers have identified small bodies that temporarily or co-orbit with Earth, most rec...