Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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Discovered: | 6 February 1997 |
Alt Names: | none |
Mp Category: | TNO (cubewano) (cold)[1] |
Epoch: | 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) |
Semimajor: | 43.68307AU |
Perihelion: | 42.07164AU |
Aphelion: | 45.2945abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Eccentricity: | 0.036889 |
Period: | 288.72 yr (105455 d) |
Inclination: | 1.45231° |
Asc Node: | 350.339° |
Arg Peri: | 259.868° |
Dimensions: | 280 km |
Mass: | 1.3? kg |
Density: | 2.0? g/cm3 |
Surface Grav: | 0.0641? m/s2 |
Escape Velocity: | 0.1213? km/s |
Sidereal Day: | ? d |
Spectral Type: | ? |
Abs Magnitude: | 6.5 |
Albedo: | 0.10? |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Orbit Ref: | [2] |
Observation Arc: | 5880 days (16.10 yr) |
Uncertainty: | 3 |
Moid: | 41.0568AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 36.7177AU |
(provisional designation ) is a cold classical Kuiper belt object, or cubewano. It has a perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) at 41.6 AU and an aphelion (farthest approach from the Sun) of 45.1 AU. is about 280 km in diameter. It was discovered on February 6, 1997, by David C. Jewitt, Jane X. Luu, Chad Trujillo, and Jun Chen at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.