(90568) 2004 GV9 explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. C2E0FF
Discovery Ref:[1]
Discovered:13 April 2004
Earliest Precovery Date:21 December 1954
Mp Category:Cubewano (MPC)[2]
Extended (DES)[3]
Orbit Ref:[4]
Epoch:13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty:2
Observation Arc:22031 days (60.32 yr)
Semimajor:42.173AU
Perihelion:38.7281AU
Aphelion:45.618abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Eccentricity:0.081681
Period:273.88 yr (100034 d)
Inclination:21.9718°
Asc Node:250.6142°
Arg Peri:293.200°
Sidereal Day:5.86 h
Spectral Type:BR
B−V=0.95,
V−R=0.52[5]
B0−V0=0.843[6]
Magnitude:19.9[7]
Abs Magnitude:
4.0
Mean Motion: / day
Rotation:5.86abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Moid:37.7917AU
Jupiter Moid:33.6786AU

(provisional designation ) is a trans-Neptunian object that was discovered on April 13, 2004 by NEAT.[1] It has been listed as a cubewano by the Minor Planet Center.[2] It was discovered on 13 April 2004 by NEAT. It has been observed forty-seven times, with precovery images back to 1954.[4] The object has an orbital period of 273.88 years. Its maximum distance from the Sun (aphelion) is 45.62 AU, and its closest (perihelion) is 38.7 AU. It has an inclination of 21.9718° and an eccentricity of 0.082.

M. E. Brown estimates that is very likely a dwarf planet.[8] A diameter of has been determined from combined observations of the Herschel and Spitzer space telescopes. Tancredi notes that light-curve-amplitude analysis shows only small deviations, suggesting that could be a spheroid with small albedo spots and hence a dwarf planet.[9] However, its low albedo suggests it has never been resurfaced and thus is unlikely to have planetary geology.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2004-04-14 . MPEC 2004-G32 : 2004 GV9 . Timothy B. . Spahr . IAU Minor Planet Center . Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . 2010-01-06.
  2. Web site: MPEC 2009-R09 : Distant Minor Planets (2009 SEPT. 16.0 TT) . 2009-09-04 . IAU Minor Planet Center . 2009-10-04.
  3. Web site: Marc W. Buie . Marc W. Buie . 2004-06-09 using 46 of 47 observations . Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 90568 . SwRI (Space Science Department) . 2009-10-04.
  4. Web site: 2011-04-11 last obs . JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 90568 (2004 GV9) . 7 April 2016.
  5. Web site: Kuiper Belt Object Magnitudes and Surface Colors . 2009-12-30 . Tegler . Stephen C. . 2007-02-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060901063349/http://www.physics.nau.edu/~tegler/research/survey.htm . 2006-09-01 .
  6. The Youthful Appearance of the 2003 EL61 Collisional Family . David L. Rabinowitz . Bradley E. Schaefer . Martha W. Schaefer. Suzanne W. Tourtellotte . 2008. 0804.2864 . 10.1088/0004-6256/136/4/1502 . 136 . The Astronomical Journal . 4 . 1502–1509 . 2008AJ....136.1502R. 117167835 .
  7. Web site: AstDys (90568) 2004GV9 Ephemerides . Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy . 2009-10-06.
  8. Web site: How many dwarf planets are there in the outer solar system? (updates daily) . . Michael E. Brown . Michael E. Brown . 30 August 2016.
  9. Tancredi, G., & Favre, S. (2008) Which are the dwarfs in the Solar System?. Depto. Astronomía, Fac. Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay; Observatorio Astronómico Los Molinos, MEC, Uruguay. Retrieved 10-08-2011