2921 Sophocles

2921 Sophocles is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Sophocles, the ancient Greek tragic dramatist.

Little is known about Sophocles beyond its orbital parameters and its 4.8-hour period of rotation.


Minor planets navigator
  • 2920 Automedon
  • 2921 Sophocles
  • 2922 Dikan'ka
Small Solar System bodies
Minor planets
  • Designation
  • Groups
  • Moons
  • Meanings of names
  • Pronunciation of names
Asteroids
  • Aten asteroid
  • Families
  • Jupiter Trojans
  • Main-belt
  • Near-Earth
  • Spectral types
Distant minor planets
  • Centaurs
  • Damocloids
  • Neptune trojans
  • Trans-Neptunian objects
    • Detached
    • Kuiper belt
    • Oort cloud
    • Scattered disc
Comets
  • Extinct
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Main-belt
  • Non-periodic
  • Periodic
  • Sungrazing
Meteoroids
  • Bolide
  • Dust
  • Fireball
  • Meteor
  • Meteorite
  • Tektite
Lists / categories
  • Asteroid groups and families
  • Asteroid moons
  • Binary asteroids
  • Minor planets