ASTEROID NAMES AND DISCOVERY V1.0

Published by National Aeronautics and Space Administration | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: July 18, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-07-17

This data set includes names, designations, and discovery circumstances for the numbered asteroids, sorted in order of catalog number. A similar file sorted in alphabetic order by name is also available in the Small Bodies Node asteroid data archive.

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "026:00" ]
identifier	urn:nasa:pds:context_pds3:data_set:data_set.ear-a-5-ddr-astnames-discovery-v1.0_y2e2-7xvf
issued	2021-05-21
landingPage	https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewDataset.jsp?dsid=EAR-A-5-DDR-ASTNAMES-DISCOVERY-V1.0
programCode	[ "026:005" ]
references	[ "https://pds.nasa.gov" ]
theme	[ "Earth Science" ]