4779 Whitley
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4779 Whitley (1978 XQ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 6, 1978 by Bowell and Warnsch at Palomar Observatory. This asteroid was named after Keith Whitley, an American country music performer. Asteroids (from Greek 'star' and 'like, in form') are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small…mehr

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4779 Whitley (1978 XQ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 6, 1978 by Bowell and Warnsch at Palomar Observatory. This asteroid was named after Keith Whitley, an American country music performer. Asteroids (from Greek 'star' and 'like, in form') are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.