Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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Discoverer: | Pan-STARRS |
Discovery Site: | Haleakala Obs. |
Discovered: | December 26, 2014 |
Mp Category: | Uranus trojan centaurdistant |
Epoch: | 16 February 2017 (JD 2457800.5) |
Uncertainty: | 1 |
Observation Arc: | 4876 days (13.35 yr) |
Semimajor: | 19.1304AU |
Perihelion: | 13.8401AU |
Aphelion: | 24.4207abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Eccentricity: | 0.276539 |
Inclination: | 25.55097° |
Asc Node: | 91.44425° |
Arg Peri: | 280.584° |
Moid: | 12.9424AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 9.47006AU |
Period: | 83.67 yr (30562 d) |
Mean Anomaly: | 75.587° |
Mean Diameter: | (est. at 0.09) |
Magnitude: | 21.6 |
Abs Magnitude: | 8.8 |
(provisional designation ) is a centaur and Uranus co-orbital, approximately 77km (48miles) in diameter, first observed on December 26, 2014, by the Pan-STARRS survey. It is the second known centaur on a tadpole orbit with Uranus, and the fourth Uranus co-orbital discovered after 83982 Crantor, and .
Centaur is a temporary trojan of Uranus, the second one (was identified first) to be confirmed as currently trapped in such a resonant state. This object may have remained as a Uranian Trojan for about 60,000 years and it can continue that way for another 80,000 years. Numerical integrations suggest that it may stay within Uranus' co-orbital zone for nearly one million years.
Besides being a Uranian trojan, is trapped in the 7:20 mean motion resonance with Saturn as well; therefore, this minor body is currently subjected to a three-body resonance. The other known Uranian trojan,, is also in this resonant configuration.