All articles starting with a number or symbol
13,599 articles
552 Sigelinde
552 Sigelinde (1904 PO), a main-belt asteroid discovered 14 December 1904 by M. F. Wolf at Heidelberg; about 82.8 km across, rotation period 17.156 hours, orbital period 5.593 years.
553 Kundry
553 Kundry (A904 YA), a roughly 9-km S-type main-belt asteroid discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg on 27 December 1904, named after the sorceress in Wagner's Parsifal; period 3.34 years, rotation 12.61 hours, not hazardous.
5535 Annefrank
5535 Annefrank (1942 EM) is a 4.8 km S-type main-belt asteroid discovered by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg in 1942, named for Anne Frank, and flown past by NASA's Stardust spacecraft in November 2002.
555 (telephone number)
555, written Klondike 5 or Klamath 5 in old exchange names, is a North American telephone code reserved for fictional numbers, with 555-1212 still serving directory assistance.
555 Norma
555 Norma (A905 AF) is a large B-type main-belt asteroid about 31 km across, orbiting the Sun every 5.67 years between 2.69 and 3.67 AU; not a near-Earth or hazardous object.
555 timer IC
The 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit that produces accurate time delays or oscillations, designed by Hans Camenzind for Signetics and first produced in 1971.
55565 Aya
55565 Aya, provisionally designated 2002 AW197, is a large classical Kuiper belt object discovered at Palomar Observatory in 2002, with a radius near 400 km, a 326-year orbit, and a strongly red surface.
55576 Amycus
55576 Amycus (provisional designation 2002 GB10) is a Centaur, a small icy body roughly 100 km wide whose eccentric orbit runs from inside Uranus's orbit to beyond Neptune's.
556 Phyllis
556 Phyllis (1905 PW), a ~38 km S-type main-belt asteroid discovered 8 January 1905 at Heidelberg by Paul Götz, named for the Greek mythological Phyllis; orbital period 3.868 years, rotation 4.29 hours.
5566
5566 (五六) is a Taiwanese boy band formed under J-Star, debuting 21 January 2002 with Tony Sun, Zax Wang, Sam Wang, Jason Hsu, and Rio Peng. Famous for My MVP Valentine and the song 我難過, it released four albums and still performs as a trio.
55676 Klythios
55676 Klythios (3034 T-1) is a 13-km Jupiter Trojan asteroid at the L5 Trojan camp, discovered 26 March 1971 at Palomar by the van Houtens and Gehrels; semimajor axis 5.236 au, inclination 11.8 degrees.
557 Violetta
557 Violetta (1905 PY, A905 BD) is a 22.6-km main-belt asteroid discovered by M. F. Wolf at Heidelberg on 26 January 1905. It orbits the Sun every 3.81 years at 2.20-2.68 AU, rotates in 5.09 hours, and is neither a near-Earth nor a potentially hazardous object.
55701 Ukalegon
55701 Ukalegon, a numbered Jupiter Trojan asteroid in 1:1 resonance with Jupiter, librating around the L5 point; semi-major axis 5.16 au, Tisserand parameter 2.850, named per the Trojan-side convention.
55702 Thymoitos
55702 Thymoitos, provisional designation 1302 T-3, is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 20 km in diameter that librates around Jupiter's trailing L5 Lagrange point, first observed in 1977.
559 Nanon
559 Nanon (A905 EB) is a large main-belt asteroid about 79.8 km across, discovered 8 March 1905 at Heidelberg by M. F. Wolf; it orbits the Sun every 4.46 years, rotates in 10.06 hours, and poses no Earth hazard.
55P/Tempel-Tuttle
55P/Tempel-Tuttle is a Halley-type periodic comet with a 33-year orbit and a 3.6 km nucleus, parent of the November Leonid meteor shower and its storms of 1833, 1966, and 2002; next perihelion 2031.
55th Academy Awards
The 55th Academy Awards (April 11, 1983, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) honored 1982 films. Gandhi won 8 of 11 Oscars including Best Picture, beating E.T.; hosts were Matthau, Minnelli, Moore, and Pryor.
55th Annual Grammy Awards
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards (2013 Grammys), held February 10, 2013 at Staples Center, Los Angeles, hosted by LL Cool J on CBS. Gotye and Kimbra won Record of the Year, Mumford & Sons Album of the Year for Babel, and Fun. won Song of the Year and Best New Artist.
56 Days
56 Days is a Prime Video erotic crime thriller (2026), eight episodes adapted from Catherine Ryan Howard's 2021 Dublin lockdown novel, starring Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia, set in Boston, filmed in Montreal.
56 Dean Street
56 Dean Street (56DS) is a free NHS sexual health and HIV clinic in Soho, London, run by Chelsea and Westminster Trust since 2009, with rapid-testing sister site Dean Street Express (2014), TransPlus gender services, and HIV diagnoses down over 80% from the 2015 peak.
56 Melete
56 Melete (中神星, A857 RB) is a large dark P-type/Xk main-belt asteroid, about 121 km across, discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt in Paris on 9 September 1857, with an 18.15-hour rotation and a 4.19-year orbit.
56 Nights
56 Nights is a 2015 mixtape by rapper Future and DJ Esco on Freebandz, titled for Esco's 56 days in a Dubai jail after a marijuana arrest; produced by 808 Mafia's Southside, it closes the Monster/Beast Mode trilogy and features "March Madness."
560 Delila
560 Delila (1905 QF) is a roughly 35-40 km B-type main-belt asteroid discovered in 1905, orbiting at 2.749 AU with 8.47 degree inclination, dark albedo 0.069, studied by stellar occultations.
561 Ingwelde
561 Ingwelde (1905 QG), a ~32 km dark main-belt asteroid of Tholen type XCU discovered 26 March 1905 at Heidelberg by M. F. Wolf; orbits at 3.17 au in 5.65 years, not hazardous.
563 Suleika
563 Suleika (A905 GD) is a roughly 53 km S-type main-belt asteroid discovered in 1905, orbiting the Sun every 4.46 years between 2.07 and 3.35 AU, rotating every 5.69 hours, and occulting star HIP 770 over Australia on 2023 Dec 01.
5637
5637 is a human bladder carcinoma cell line established in 1974 from a 68-year-old man, known for secreting growth factors and widely used in bladder cancer drug-response research.
5637 Gyas
5637 Gyas, provisionally designated 1988 RF1, is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 28 km across, discovered by the Shoemakers at Palomar Observatory in 1988.
5638 Deikoon
5638 Deikoon (1988 TA3) is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 41.5 km across, discovered 10 October 1988 at Palomar by C. S. and E. M. Shoemaker; it orbits the Sun every 11.99 years and is not potentially hazardous.
564 Dudu
564 Dudu (1905 QM) is a roughly 50 km main-belt asteroid discovered 9 May 1905 by Paul Götz at Heidelberg, named for a character in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, with a 4.54-year orbit and 8.88-hour rotation.
5648 Axius
5648 Axius (1990 VU1) is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 59.3 km across, discovered 11 November 1990 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami, named after the Greek river god Axius, with albedo 0.073.