(636872) 2014 YX49 explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. C7FF8F
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 .

Description

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.

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