876 Scott is a

minor planet According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ...

orbiting the

Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...

. For a long time, its name had been falsely attributed to

Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – ) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova Expedition ...

. In fact, it was named after discoverer Johann Palisa's financial supporter Miss E. Scott.Lutz D. Schmadel
''(876) Scott''.
In: ''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names.'' Springer, Berlin 2003, p. 79.

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* * 000876 Discoveries by Johann Palisa Named minor planets 000876 19170620 {{beltasteroid-stub