Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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Discovered: | 16 November 2002 |
Epoch: | 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) |
Semimajor: | 48.01AU |
Perihelion: | 35.289AU |
Time Periastron: | ≈ 5 November 2056[1] ±3 days |
Aphelion: | 60.732abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Eccentricity: | 0.26498 |
Period: | 332.67 yr (121,507 d) |
Inclination: | 9.1746° |
Asc Node: | 109.7547° |
Arg Peri: | 44.356° |
Satellites: | 1 (81 km) |
Dimensions: | 338 km |
Mass: | (prograde) or (retrograde) |
Albedo: | 0.07 (expected from theory) |
Abs Magnitude: | 4.9 |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Observation Arc: | 3978 days (10.89 yr) |
Uncertainty: | 3 |
Moid: | 34.3056AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 29.9229AU |
(provisional designation ) is a twotino, that is, a planetoid in a 1:2 orbital resonance with Neptune. It was discovered on November 16, 2002 at the Palomar Observatory. If its derived diameter is correct it would have a higher density than Pluto, which is unusual as it appears to be much smaller than the expected size at which a Kuiper belt object usually becomes solid.
Knowing how many twotinos there are may reveal whether Neptune took roughly 1 million or 10 million years to migrate about 7 AU from its birth location.
A natural satellite was reported to be orbiting (named S/2007 (119979) 1) on February 27, 2007. It is estimated to be from the primary, with an orbital period of days, an eccentricity of and an inclination of . Assuming similar albedos, it is a quarter the diameter of its primary, or around 81km (50miles) in diameter.