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Astronomical objects discovered in 1948

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Miranda
smallest of the large moons of Uranus
1685 Toro
asteroid
Q144913
asteroid
1735 ITA
asteroid
1565 Lemaître
asteroid
1569 Evita
asteroid
Q143727
asteroid
Q144256
asteroid
Q142287
asteroid
Q141497
asteroid
Q142952
asteroid
Q178996
asteroid
Q677805
asteroid
Q145267
asteroid
Q140904
asteroid
Q142409
asteroid
Q141586
asteroid
Q147303
asteroid
Q141034
asteroid
2108 Otto Schmidt
asteroid
3382 Cassidy
asteroid
Q152367
asteroid
46P/Wirtanen
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat different epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 1967 || 1.61 |- | 1974 || 1.26 |- | 1986 || 1.08 |- | 2013 || 1.05 |- | 2035 || 1.08 |- | 2046 || 1.22 |- | 2059 || 1.98 |- | 2095 || 2.01 |}
Q155866
asteroid
Q154964
asteroid
7448 Pöllath
asteroid
6029 Edithrand
asteroid
45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková
45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková is a short-period comet discovered by Minoru Honda December 3, 1948. It is named after Minoru Honda, Antonín Mrkos, and Ľudmila Pajdušáková. The object revolves around the Sun on an elliptical orbit with a period of 5.25 years. The nucleus is 1.3 kilometers in diameter. On August 19 and 20, 2011, it became the fifteenth comet detected by ground radar telescope.
47P/Ashbrook–Jackson
47P/Ashbrook–Jackson is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.35-year orbit around the Sun. It is the only comet discovered by Joseph Ashbrook and the third and final one by Cyril V. Jackson.
C/1948 V1
comet
RR Telescopii
star in the constellation Telescopium