2785 Sedov - Asteroid Family, Solar System, Trojan (Astronomy), Near-Earth Object
- 2785 Sedov (1978 QN2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 31
- 1978 by N
- Chernykh at Nauchnyj
- Asteroids (from Greek 'star' and 'like
- In form') are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun
- They have also been called planetoids
- Especially the larger ones
- These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet
- But as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered
- Their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets
