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minor planet

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minor planet: see asteroid asteroid, planetoid, or minor planet, small body orbiting the sun. More than 10,000 asteroids have orbits sufficiently well known to have been cataloged and named; thousands more exist.
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By 1980, I said that maybe we shouldn't be calling Pluto a planet anymore," says Brian Marsden, director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center.
With observatory colleagues, Skiff describes the find in a May 14 circular of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass.
Additionally, Stephen CuUnjieng, an affiliate of HFS Minor Planet Funding LLC, the provider of the company's $2 million exit financing, was previously appointed to the board of directors pursuant to HFS' contractual right to appoint a director as per the letter agreement.
 
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