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876 Scott
876 Scott (1917 CH) is a main-belt asteroid discovered 20 June 1917 by Johann Palisa at Vienna. It orbits at 3.01 au with a 5.22-year period, mean radius 10.94 km, rotation 11.8137 h, albedo 0.1626.
877 Walkure
877 Walkure (1915 S7), a 38-km F-type main-belt asteroid discovered 13 September 1915 at Simeis by Grigori Neujmin; orbits the Sun every 3.92 years, rotates in 17.42 hours, not hazardous.
878 Mildred
878 Mildred (A916 RC) is a ~2.5 km main-belt asteroid discovered in 1916 by Nicholson and Shapley at Mount Wilson, named for Shapley's daughter, lost for 75 years, and recovered in 1991 by Gareth Williams.
879 Ricarda
879 Ricarda (1917 CJ) is an 18 km main-belt asteroid discovered 22 July 1917 by M. F. Wolf at Heidelberg, named for poet Ricarda Huch, a Maria-family S-type with an 82.9-hour rotation and a possible small satellite.
87Eleven Entertainment
87Eleven Entertainment, originally 87eleven Action Design, is an American film production and stunt coordination company founded in 1997 by Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, and Damon Caro, known for the John Wick franchise, its Inglewood stunt facility, and its 2024 Lionsgate first-look deal.
87P/Bus
87P/Bus is a small Encke-type periodic comet discovered by Schelte J. Bus on UK Schmidt plates at Siding Spring in 1981, with a 6.4-year orbit, 0.56 km nucleus, and no Earth approaches.
87th Academy Awards
The 87th Academy Awards, held February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre and hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, honored 2014 films; Birdman won Best Picture and Director, tying The Grand Budapest Hotel at four Oscars.
87th Infantry Division (United States)
87th Infantry Division ("Golden Acorn Division"), a U.S. Army unit organized 1917 at Camp Pike, served in Service of Supply in WWI, fought with Patton's Third Army in WWII (Ardennes, Koblenz, Rhine), and continues as the 87th Training Division.
88 (number)
88 (eighty-eight) is the natural number after 87, best known as the number of keys on a piano, the constellations recognized by the IAU, and radium's atomic number.
88 Minutes
88 Minutes is a 2007 psychological thriller directed by Jon Avnet, starring Al Pacino as a Seattle forensic psychiatrist threatened by phone with death in 88 minutes.
88 Thisbe
88 Thisbe, large dark main-belt asteroid (Tholen CF, Bus B), about 200-230 km across, diameter 232 ± 10 km from its 1981 stellar occultation; mass and density remain uncertain.
880 Herba
880 Herba (1917 CK, A917 OC) is a roughly 32-km F-type main-belt asteroid discovered 22 July 1917 at Heidelberg by M. F. Wolf, named for the Greek god of misery and poverty, with a 12.27-hour rotation.
881 Athene
881 Athene (A917 OD, 1917 CL) is a stony background asteroid of the middle main belt, about 12 km across, discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg on 22 July 1917, named for the goddess Athena, rotating in 13.9 hours.
882 Swetlana
882 Swetlana (1917 CM) is a ~42 km main-belt asteroid discovered 15 August 1917 by G. N. Neujmin at Simeis, independently by M. F. Wolf; name origin unknown; not hazardous.
883 Matterania
883 Matterania (1917 CP) is a 7-km S-type main-belt asteroid discovered 14 September 1917 by M. F. Wolf at Heidelberg, orbiting at 2.24 au with a 3.35-year period, 5.64-hour rotation, and its own Zappalà asteroid family.
884 Priamus
884 Priamus (1917 CQ) is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid at the L5 point, about 101 km across, D-type, albedo 0.044, rotation 6.86 hours, discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg on 22 September 1917.
884 trial
The 884 trial (NCT00579709), Thymus Transplantation With Immunosuppression, was a Duke Phase 1 study of Thymoglobulin, cyclosporine, and cultured thymus tissue for complete DiGeorge anomaly patients able to reject grafts.
885 Egypt earthquake
The 885 Egypt earthquake was a destructive shock that struck Lower Egypt in November 885, reportedly killing about 1,000 people and damaging the mosque of 'Amr at Fustat.
885 Ulrike
885 Ulrike (1917 CX) is a 30.5-km main-belt asteroid discovered 23 September 1917 by Belyavskij at Simeis, named for Ulrike von Levetzow of Goethe's Marienbader Elegie, orbiting at 3.097 AU with a 4.90-hour rotation.
886 Washingtonia
886 Washingtonia (A917 WA) is a large 86.8 km C-type main-belt asteroid discovered November 16, 1917 by G.H. Peters at Washington, DC and named for George Washington; Margaret Harwood found it four days earlier but was denied credit.
88611 Teharonhiawako
88611 Teharonhiawako (2001 QT297) is a binary cold classical Kuiper belt object discovered in 2001 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey, with companion Sawiskera; primary about 178 km across, density near 0.6 g/cm3.
887 Alinda
887 Alinda is a large Amor near-Earth asteroid discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg in 1918, namesake of the Alinda group of asteroids in a 3:1 resonance with Jupiter.
887 Niigata earthquake
The 887 Niigata earthquake, known in Japanese as the Ninna earthquake, was a great Nankai Trough earthquake off southwest Japan in August 887, with an estimated magnitude of 8.3.
8888 Uprising
The 8888 Uprising (Four Eights Uprising, People Power Uprising) was Burma's nationwide 1988 pro-democracy revolt, peaking in the 8 August 1988 general strike against Ne Win's BSPP rule and crushed by the SLORC coup of 18 September 1988.
889 Erynia
889 Erynia (1918 DG) is a 16.7-km main-belt asteroid discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg on March 5, 1918. It orbits the Sun every 3.83 years, rotates in 9.89 hours, and is neither a near-Earth nor potentially hazardous object.
88P/Howell
88P/Howell is a Jupiter-family periodic comet discovered by Ellen Howell at Palomar in 1981, with a 5.48-year period, 1.36 AU perihelion, post-perihelion brightness peak, and first CN isotope ratios measured in a Jupiter-family comet.
88rising
88rising (88⧆), formerly CXSHXNLY, is an American media company and record label founded in 2015 by Sean Miyashiro, representing Asian artists such as Joji, Rich Brian, Niki, and Higher Brothers, and running the Head In The Clouds festival.
88th Academy Awards
The 88th Academy Awards (2016 Oscars), held February 28, 2016 at the Dolby Theatre, honored 2015 films: Spotlight won Best Picture, DiCaprio won Best Actor for The Revenant, Chris Rock hosted amid the diversity controversy.
88th Readiness Division
The 88th Readiness Division (88th RD) is a two-star U.S. Army Reserve command co-headquartered at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, and Fort Snelling, Minnesota, supporting over 53,000 Soldiers across 19 states.
89 (number)
89, or eighty-nine, is the natural number after 88 and before 90. It is the 24th prime, the 11th Fibonacci number, and actinium's atomic number.