58534 Logos Explained

Minorplanet:yes
Background:
  1. C2E0FF
58534 Logos
Discovered:4 February 1997
Mpc Name:(58534) Logos
Pronounced: or
Adjectives:Logian
Named After:Logos 
Mp Category:TNO cubewano 
cold 
Epoch:13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Observation Arc:5582 days (15.28 yr)
Uncertainty:3
Semimajor:45.549AU
Perihelion:39.945AU
Aphelion:51.153abbr=onNaNabbr=on
Eccentricity:0.12304
Period:307.42 yr (112284 d)
Inclination:2.8946°
Asc Node:132.491°
Arg Peri:339.21°
Mean Motion: / day
Satellites:Zoe
Density:1.0 g/cm3
Albedo:0.39 ± 0.17
Abs Magnitude:6.6

58534 Logos, or as a binary system (58534) Logos-Zoe, is a trans-Neptunian object and binary system from the classical Kuiper belt, approximately 77km (48miles) in diameter. The bright cubewano belongs to the cold population and has a 66-kilometer sized companion named Zoe. The system mass is .

In the Gnostic tradition, Logos and Zoe are a paired emanation of the deity, and part of its creation myth.

Zoe

Minorplanet:yes
Zoe
Discoverer:Keith S. Noll et al.
Discovered:17 November 2001
Named After:Zoe (Ζωή)
Adjectives:Zoean)
Eccentricity:0.546
Period:309.9 d

Logos is a binary with the components of comparable size orbiting the barycentre on a moderately elliptical orbit.

Logos was discovered on 4 February 1997, and its, companion, Zoe, was discovered on 17 November 2001 from Hubble Space Telescope observations by K. S. Noll, D. C. Stephens, W. M. Grundy, J. Spencer, Robert Millis, Marc Buie, Dale Cruikshank, S. C. Tegler, and W. Romanishin and announced on 11 February 2002.

After the discovery, it received the provisional designation . Once confirmed it was officially named (58534) Logos I Zoe. It orbits Logos with a semi-major axis of 8217 km in 309.9 days with an eccentricity of 0.546. Its estimated diameter is 66 km, and mass (0.15 ± 0.02) kg.

Orbit

A 10-million-year integration of the orbit shows that it is a Classical Kuiper belt object that does not get closer to the Sun than 38.8abbr=unitNaNabbr=unit or further than 52.1 AU.

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