June, 2023 - BODA
Named after Karl Boda, a German astronomer. Boda means wedding in Spanish.
1487 Boda is an asteroid, a large rock that orbits the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They tend to be irregularly shaped, but Ceres asteroid is known to be spherical because it doesn't clear its path around the Sun. It is only a dwarf planet.
Asteroids are also known as Minor Planets, but that term has largely fallen out of favour since 2006, with a preference for using Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies. Minor Planet refers to anything, not a comet or a planet.
Its name and number are allocated to it by the Minor Planet Center (M.P.C.), part of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Some asteroids are dedicated by the discoverers to people or named after mythology, such as Arawn and Sedna. Those not named will be assigned the year and letters. Usually, it will just be referred to as Boda.
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