2021 RR205
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| Discovery[1] | |
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| Discovered by | S. S. Sheppard D. J. Tholen C. Trujillo |
| Discovery site | Mauna Kea Obs. |
| Discovery date | 5 September 2021 |
| Designations | |
| 2021 RR205 | |
| TNO[2] · detached · distant[3] | |
| Orbital characteristics (barycentric)[4] | |
| Epoch 25 February 2023 (JD 2460000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 3[2] | |
| Observation arc | 5.11 yr (1,867 days) |
| Earliest precovery date | 24 July 2017 |
| Aphelion | 1926 AU |
| Perihelion | 55.541 AU |
| 990.9 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.94395 |
| 31173 yr | |
| 0.363° | |
| 0° 0m 0.114s / day | |
| Inclination | 7.644° |
| 108.345° | |
| 208.574° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 100–300 km (est. 0.04–0.2)[5] | |
| 24.6[1] | |
| 6.77±0.11[2] · 6.74[3] | |
2021 RR205 is an extreme trans-Neptunian object discovered by astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo with the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory on 5 September 2021. It resides beyond the outer extent of the Kuiper belt on a distant and highly eccentric orbit detached from Neptune's gravitational influence, with a large perihelion distance of 55.5 astronomical units (AU).[4] Its large orbital semi-major axis (~1,000 AU) suggests it is potentially from the inner Oort cloud.[6][7] 2021 RR205 and 2013 SY99 both lie in the 50–75 AU perihelion gap that separates the detached objects from the more distant sednoids; dynamical studies indicate that such objects in the inner edge of this gap weakly experience "diffusion", or inward orbital migration due to minuscule perturbations by Neptune.[6] While Sheppard considers 2021 RR205 a sednoid, researchers Yukun Huang and Brett Gladman do not.[8]
2021 RR205's heliocentric distance was 60 AU when it was discovered.[2] It has been detected in precovery observations by the Dark Energy Survey at Cerro Tololo Observatory from as early as July 2017.[3] It last passed perihelion in the early 1990s and is now moving outbound from the Sun.[1]
- 1 2 3 "MPEC-2022-S118 : 2021 RR205". Minor Planet Electronic Circular. Minor Planet Center. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2021 RR205)" (2022-09-03 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- 1 2 3 "2021 RR205". Minor Planet Center. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- 1 2 "JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris for 2021 RR205 at epoch JD 2460000.5". JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 21 September 2022. Solution using the Solar System Barycenter. Ephemeris Type: Elements and Center: @0)
- ↑ "Asteroid Size Estimator". Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- 1 2 Bannister, Michele; Shankman, Cory; Volk, Katherine (2017). "OSSOS: V. Diffusion in the orbit of a high-perihelion distant Solar System object". The Astronomical Journal. 153 (6): 262. arXiv:1704.01952. Bibcode:2017AJ....153..262B. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa6db5. S2CID 3502267.
- ↑ Sheppard, Scott S. "Scott Sheppard Small Body Discoveries". Earth and Planets Laboratory. Carnegie Institution for Science. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ↑ Huang, Yukun; Gladman, Brett (February 2024). "Primordial Orbital Alignment of Sednoids". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 962 (2): 6. arXiv:2310.20614. Bibcode:2024ApJ...962L..33H. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ad2686. L33.
External links
- 2021 RR205 at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 2021 RR205 at the JPL Small-Body Database
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