50000 Quaoar
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 Sum of 16 Hubble exposures registered on Quaoar. |
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| Discovery[1] and Designation | |
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| Discoverer | Chad Trujillo, Michael Brown |
| Discovery date | 2002 Jun 05 10:48:08 PDT on an image taken 2002 June 04 05:41:40 UT |
| Alternative names [1] | 2002 LM60 |
| Minor planet category | Cubewano[2][3] |
| Orbital characteristics[4] Epoch May 18, 2008 (JD 2 454 600.5) |
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| Aphelion | 6.716 275 Tm (45.286 AU) |
| Perihelion | 6.270 316 Tm (41.928 AU) |
| Semi-major axis | 6.493 296 Tm (43.607 AU) |
| Eccentricity | 0.038 4 |
| Orbital period | 105 181.6 d (287.97 a) |
| Average orbital speed | 4.52 km/s |
| Mean anomaly | 284.861° |
| Inclination | 7.988° |
| Longitude of ascending node | 188.893° |
| Argument of perihelion | 148.508° |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 1260 ± 190 km (direct)[5]
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| Mass | (1.0–2.6)×1021 kg |
| Mean density | 2.0? g/cm³ |
| Equatorial surface gravity | 0.276–0.376 m/s² |
| Equatorial Escape velocity | 0.523–0.712 km/s |
| Geometric albedo | 0.088 +0.021−0.012 [5]
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| Temperature | ~43 K |
| Spectral type | (moderately red) B-V=0.94, V-R=0.65 |
| Absolute magnitude | 2.6 |
50000 Quaoar is a Trans-Neptunian object and could be a dwarf planet. It was found on June 4, 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown at the California Institute of Technology.
[change] References
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions About Quaoar
- ↑ Buie, Marc W. (2006-05-17). "Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 50000". SwRI (Space Science Department). http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/kbo/astrom/50000.html. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
- ↑ Marsden, Brian G. (2008-07-17). "MPEC 2008-O05 : Distant Minor Planets (2008 Aug. 2.0 TT)". IAU Minor Planet Center. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpec/K08/K08O05.html. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- ↑ Asteroid Data Services by Lowell Observatory
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Brown, Michael E. and Chadwick A. Trujillo (2004). "Direct Measurement of the Size of the Large Kuiper Belt Object (50000) Quaoar". The Astronomical Journal 127 (7018): 2413–2417. doi:10.1086/382513. Reprint on Brown's site (pdf)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Stansberry J., Grundy W., Brown M, Cruikshank D., Spencer J., Trilling D., Margot J-L Physical Properties of Kuiper Belt and Centaur Objects: Constraints from Spitzer Space Telescope To Appear in: Kuiper Belt (M.A. Barucci et al., Eds.) U. Arizona Press, 2007 Preprint
[change] Other websites
- Quaoar discoverers' webpage
- Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) /Ephemeris
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