A major number of minor planets
Today I found an online Asteroid Orbit Viewer. This was particularly interesting for me because it allowed me to see the orbit of the asteroid that my wife and I discovered in April of 1993 while we were making observations at MDM Observatory on Kitt Peak….
Some more fun facts about minor planets: There are currently 96,154 numbered minor planets. Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first one, Ceres, on January 1, 1801. The 96154th numbered minor planet was discovered in 1977 at Palomar Observatory. Minor planets 96010 through 96050 were discovered in August of 2004. Since 1997, the LINEAR project has discovered 47,898 numbered minor planets, 49.8 percent of the total number discovered during the last 200 years!