2000 Herschel
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2000 Herschel is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century British astronomer John Herschel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2000 Herschel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12316195 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2000 Herschel Context triple: [John Herschel, hasAsteroidNamedAfter, 2000 Herschel]
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A.
20000 Varuna
20000 Varuna is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper Belt, notable for its rapid rotation, elongated shape, and status as one of the earliest discovered significant bodies beyond Neptune.
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B.
S/2000 J 9
S/2000 J 9 is the provisional designation for Taygete, a small retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter discovered in 2000.
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C.
2004 DW
2004 DW is the provisional designation for Orcus, a large Kuiper Belt dwarf-planet candidate often compared to Pluto in size and orbital characteristics.
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D.
1998 KY26
1998 KY26 is a tiny, rapidly rotating near-Earth asteroid selected as the extended mission target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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E.
1997 Leverrier
1997 Leverrier is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier, known for predicting the existence of Neptune.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2000 Herschel Target entity description: 2000 Herschel is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century British astronomer John Herschel.
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A.
20000 Varuna
20000 Varuna is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper Belt, notable for its rapid rotation, elongated shape, and status as one of the earliest discovered significant bodies beyond Neptune.
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B.
S/2000 J 9
S/2000 J 9 is the provisional designation for Taygete, a small retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter discovered in 2000.
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C.
2004 DW
2004 DW is the provisional designation for Orcus, a large Kuiper Belt dwarf-planet candidate often compared to Pluto in size and orbital characteristics.
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D.
1998 KY26
1998 KY26 is a tiny, rapidly rotating near-Earth asteroid selected as the extended mission target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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E.
1997 Leverrier
1997 Leverrier is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier, known for predicting the existence of Neptune.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.