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476 Hedwig
476 Hedwig (1901 GQ) is a large dark main-belt asteroid, ~132 km across, discovered 17 August 1901 by L. Carnera at Heidelberg; Xk/P-type, 27.33-hour slow rotator, density 1.33 g/cm^3, not hazardous.
4769 Castalia
4769 Castalia is a contact-binary Apollo near-Earth asteroid discovered by Eleanor Helin in 1989, the first solar system object shown by radar to have two lobes in contact.
477 Italia
477 Italia (1901 GR, A905 UK) is a roughly 23 km S-type main-belt asteroid discovered 23 August 1901 by Luigi Carnera at Heidelberg and named for Italy; orbit 2.415 AU, period 3.75 years, rotation 19.41 hours.
478 Tergeste
478 Tergeste (A901 SC), a large main-belt asteroid of about 80 km diameter discovered by Luigi Carnera at Heidelberg on 21 September 1901 and named for Trieste; S/L-type, 16.1-hour rotation, no Earth close approaches.
4791 Iphidamas
4791 Iphidamas (1988 PB1), a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid discovered 14 August 1988, about 50-60 km across, orbital period 11.72 years, rotation 9.70 hours, no close Earth approaches.
4792 Lykaon
4792 Lykaon (1988 RK1) is a dark Jupiter Trojan asteroid, about 51 km across, in the L5 camp behind Jupiter. Discovered 1988 by the Shoemakers at Palomar; rotation period about 40 hours; named for Priam's son killed by Achilles.
47P/Ashbrook-Jackson
47P/Ashbrook-Jackson, periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered independently in August 1948 by Joseph Ashbrook and Cyril Jackson. Orbital period 8.35 years, perihelion 2.81 AU, nucleus radius about 2.9 km, last perihelion October 2025.
47th Academy Awards
The 47th Academy Awards, held April 8, 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, honored 1974 films. The Godfather Part II won six Oscars including Best Picture, the first sequel to do so.
47th G7 summit
The 47th G7 summit, also called the Carbis Bay summit, met 11–13 June 2021 in Cornwall, UK, hosted by Boris Johnson under the UK presidency, producing 429 commitments on vaccines, climate, tax, and infrastructure.
48 Aurigae
48 Aurigae, also known as RT Aurigae, is a classical Cepheid variable star in the constellation Auriga that brightens and dims every 3.728 days, about 1,560 light years away.
48 Doris
48 Doris (昏神星) is a large carbonaceous Ch-type main-belt asteroid discovered by H. Goldschmidt in Paris on 19 September 1857; about 217 km across, 5.49-year orbit, 11.89-hour rotation, bulk density roughly 1.4 g/cm³.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. (1982) is Walter Hill's Paramount action comedy starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, whose 48-hour prison release helps a cop hunt escaped killers; it launched Murphy's film career and defined the buddy-cop genre.
48 Librae
48 Librae (FX Librae) is a bright Be shell star in the constellation Libra, a rapidly rotating B-type star with a dense, extended circumstellar disk seen nearly edge-on from Earth.
48,XXXY syndrome
48,XXXY syndrome (XXXY males, XXXY syndrome) is a rare sex chromosome condition in boys and men with three X chromosomes and one Y, causing intellectual disability, speech delay, tall stature, hypogonadism, and infertility.
48,XYYY syndrome
48,XYYY syndrome, also written 48 XYYY, is an extremely rare male-only sex chromosome aneuploidy with one X and three Y chromosomes, causing speech delay, tall stature, dental enamel defects, acne, and adult hypogonadism with infertility; about a dozen cases reported since 1965.
48:13
48:13 is the fifth studio album by English rock band Kasabian, released 9 June 2014 on Columbia. Named for its 48:13 runtime, produced by Sergio Pizzorno, it became their fourth consecutive UK number-one album.
480 Hansa
480 Hansa (A901 KB) is a large 56.2 km S-type main-belt asteroid with a 16.19-hour rotation, high inclination (21.3 degrees), namesake of the Hansa asteroid family, with low-Ca pyroxene surface mineralogy and no Earth-close orbit.
4805 Asteropaios
4805 Asteropaios is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid orbiting at Jupiter's L5 point, the trailing Trojan camp, and is named for a Trojan character in the Trojan War.
480i
480i is a standard-definition video format with 480 active scan lines within a 525-line raster, transmitted as two interlaced fields at 59.94 or 60 fields per second in 4:3 or 16:9.
480p
480p is a progressive-scan video format with 480 active scan lines per frame, classified as enhanced-definition TV and derived from the 525-line NTSC system; common sizes include 640×480 and 854×480.
481 Emita
481 Emita (1902 HP) is a large, dark C/Ch-type main-belt asteroid about 107 km across, discovered by Luigi Carnera at Heidelberg on 12 February 1902, with a 4.54-year orbit and reported signs of dust activity in 2023-2024.
482 Petrina
482 Petrina, a main-belt S-type asteroid about 45.75 km across with albedo 0.246, rotation period 11.794 hours, orbital period 1897.54 days, named with 483 Seppina after the discoverer's pet dogs.
4827 Dares
4827 Dares (1988 QE) is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid discovered 17 August 1988 at Palomar by C. S. Shoemaker; semi-major axis 5.1331 au, eccentricity 0.0447, inclination 7.7009°, H = 10.57 mag.
4828 Misenus
4828 Misenus (1988 RV) is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid in the L5 Misenus family, discovered 11 September 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar; diameter roughly 20–48 km, orbital period 11.7 years.
4829 Sergestus
4829 Sergestus (1988 RM1) is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid discovered 10 September 1988 at Palomar by C. S. Shoemaker; largest member of the Panthoos family and a PD-type, unlike its D-type family members.
483 Seppina
483 Seppina (1902 HU, A902 EJ) is a large ~67 km S-type outer main-belt asteroid discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg on 4 March 1902, orbiting the Sun every 6.35 years and rotating slowly in 12.73 hours.
4833 Meges
4833 Meges is a D-type asteroid and one of the 40 largest Jupiter Trojans, about 84 km across, discovered in 1989 by Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.
4834 Thoas
4834 Thoas (1989 AM2) is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid, about 72.3 km across, discovered 11 January 1989 at Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S. It orbits the Sun every 11.85 years, rotates in 18.19 hours, and is not potentially hazardous.
4835 Asaeus
4835 Asaeus is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 30 kilometers wide, discovered in Japan in 1989 and named for the first Achaean slain by Hector.
4836 Medon
4836 Medon (1989 CK1) is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid, about 63–74 km across, discovered 2 February 1989 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar; it orbits at 5.22 au with a 19.4° inclination and an 11.93-year period.