3163 Randi

•  3753 Cruithne

  3753 Cruithne is an asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with that of the Earth. It is a periodic inclusion planetoid orbiting the Sun in an apparent horseshoe orbit. It has been called "Earth's second moon", although it is only a quasi-satellite.

  

  24.2%
  

  36.4%
  

  39.4%
  
•  4593 Reipurth

  The asteroid 4593 Reipurth was discovered on March 16, 1980, by Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist. It was named in honor of Bo Reipurth, then a staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in charge of the Schmidt Telescope. Reipurth was unaware of the asteroid's name until years later, when he found himself on an intercontinental flight with nothing to read except a list of minor planet names.

  

  34.6%
  

  38.5%
  

  26.9%
  
•  944 Hidalgo

  944 Hidalgo is an unusual asteroid, and has the longest orbital period (13.77 years) of any asteroid in the traditional asteroid belt.

  

  28.9%
  

  28.9%
  

  42.2%
  
•  107P/Wilson-Harrington

  

  48.3%
  

  27.6%
  

  24.1%
  
•  133P/Elst-Pizarro

  

  34.3%
  

  31.4%
  

  34.3%
  
•  45 Eugenia

  45 Eugenia is a large Main belt asteroid. It is famed as one of the first asteroids to be found to have a moon orbiting it. It is also the second known triple asteroid, after 87 Sylvia.

  

  33.3%
  

  36.4%
  

  30.3%
  
•  216 Kleopatra

  216 Kleopatra is a trinary Main belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa on April 10, 1880 in Pola. It is named after Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. Kleopatra has an unusual shape that has been compared to a dog's bone. Its bilobate shape was revealed by adaptive optics on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope at La Silla, run by the European Southern Observatory.

  

  27.3%
  

  50.0%
  

  22.7%
  
•  511 Davida

  511 Davida is a large main belt C-type asteroid. It was discovered by R. S. Dugan in 1903. It is thought to be one of the ten most massive asteroids. It is approximately 270–310 km in diameter and comprises an estimated 1.5% of the total mass of the asteroid belt. It is a C-type asteroid, which means that it is dark in colouring with a carbonate composition. Davida is one of the few main belt asteroids whose shape has been determined by ground-based visual observation.

  

  48.4%
  

  16.1%
  

  35.5%
  
•  4183 Cuno

  4183 Cuno is an Apollo, Mars- and Venus-crosser asteroid. It was discovered in 1959 by Cuno Hoffmeister, from whom the asteroid takes its name. Cuno is about 4–9 km in diameter and is an S-type asteroid, meaning that it is highly reflective and composed of nickel-iron mixed with iron- and magnesium-silicates. In December 2000, Cuno was analysed by radar to determine its shape.

  

  32.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  48.0%
  
•  719 Albert

  719 Albert is a Mars-crossing, Amor asteroid; it was the second one discovered after 433 Eros.

  

  17.6%
  

  35.3%
  

  47.1%
  

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•  San Francisco Seals

  San Francisco Seals can refer to: San Francisco Seals (baseball), a Pacific Coast League team from 1903–1957 San Francisco Seals (hockey), a Western Hockey League team from 1961–1967 that entered the National Hockey League in the fall of 1967, as the California Seals San Francisco Seals (soccer), also known as the San Francisco Bay Seals, a minor league team from 1992–2000 and 2006–present

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Halifax Thunder

  The Halifax Thunder are a defunct Ice-hockey team from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They played in the Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League. The 2006-07 season was their first in Halifax and the 2008-09 season was their last. They were previously the East Hants Penguins. The Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League is currently looking for groups with interest in placing an expansion team in Halifax, Nova Scotia or the surrounding suburban areas.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Raymund VI, Count of Toulouse

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Mountain, Ontario

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Ippolito I d’Este

  

  21.7%
  

  17.4%
  

  60.9%