Asteroids

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102674
- info:lc/authorities/sh85102674
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85102674#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Minor planets
- Planetoids
- Planets, Minor
Broader Terms
- Solar system
Narrower Terms
Related Terms
- Near-Earth objects
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11976093k
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/4174799-9
Earlier Established Forms
- Planets, Minor
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Asimov, I. The asteroids, 1988.
- found: Web. 3 (also minor planet, planetoid)
- found: Random House (also minor planet)
- found: Acad. Am. encyc. (also minor planet)
- found: Britannica Micro. (Minor planet, also asteroid, planetoid)
- found: McGraw Hill encyc. sci. tech.
- found: NASA.
- found: Facts on File dictionary of astronomy, 1985: see minor planets.
LC Classification
- QB377-QB379
- QB516
- QB651-QB653
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2007-09-07: revised

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