Recently uncovered celestial bodies
Dots in the sky turned into wonderous worlds
2012
Toutatis (near-Earth asteroid)
Group: Apollo/Alinda | Spectral type: Sk | Size: 3 km | Spacecraft: Chang'e 2 (CNSA)
2014
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (short-period comet)
Type: Jupiter-family comet | Size: 5 km | Spacecraft: Rosetta (ESA)
2015
Ceres (dwarf planet)
Location: Main belt | Spectral type: Cg | Size: 946 km | Spacecraft: Dawn (NASA)
Pluto (dwarf planet)
Location: Kuiper belt | Class: plutino | Size: 2374 km | Spacecraft: New Horizons (NASA)
Charon (dwarf planet secondary)
Location: Kuiper belt | Class: plutino | Size: 1212 km | Spacecraft: New Horizons (NASA)
Nix & Hydra (satellites of binary dwarf planet)
Location: Kuiper belt | Class: plutinos | Size: 21 km & 23 km | Spacecraft: New Horizons (NASA)
2018
Ryugu (near-Earth asteroid)
Group: Apollo | Spectral type: Cg | Size: 940 m | Spacecraft: Hayabusa2 (JAXA)
Bennu (near-Earth asteroid)
Group: Apollo | Spectral type: B | Size: 490 m | Spacecraft: OSIRIS-REx (NASA)
2019
Arrokoth (contact binary planetesimal)
Location: Kuiper belt | Class: cold classical | Size: 32 km | Spacecraft: New Horizons (NASA)
2022
Didymos & Dimorphos (binary near-Earth asteroid)
Group: Apollo | Spectral type: S | Size: 780 m & 160 m | Spacecraft: DART (NASA)
2023
Dinkinesh & Dinky (binary Main Belt asteroid)
Group: --- | Spectral type: Sq | Size: 790 m & 220 m | Spacecraft: Lucy (NASA)
