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Template:Mp (provisional designation Template:Mp) is a trans-Neptunian object of the scattered disc orbiting in the outermost region of the Solar System.[1][2]
The Spitzer Space Telescope has estimated this object to be about Script error: No such module "convert". in diameter,[3] but 2012 estimates from the Herschel Space Observatory estimate the diameter as closer to Script error: No such module "convert"..[4] It is not a detached object, since its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) is under the influence of Neptune.[2] Light-curve-amplitude analysis suggests that it is a spheroid.[5]
Discovery
Discovered in 1996 by David C. Jewitt et al., it was the first object to be categorized as a scattered-disk object (SDO), although Template:Mpl, discovered a year earlier, was later recognised as a scattered-disk object. It was considered one the largest known trans-Neptunian objects at the time of the discovery, being placed second after Pluto.[6] It came to perihelion in 2001.[1]
Orbit and size
Template:Mp orbits the Sun with a semi-major axis of 83.9 AU[1] but is currently only 35 AU from the Sun with an apparent magnitude of 21.[7] In 2007, the Spitzer Space Telescope estimated it to have a low albedo with a diameter of about Script error: No such module "val"..[3] More-recent measurements in 2012 by the 'TNOs are Cool' research project and reanalysis of older data have resulted in a new estimate of these figures.[4] It is now assumed that it has a higher albedo and the diameter was revised downward to Script error: No such module "val".. Light-curve-amplitude analysis shows only small deviations, suggesting Template:Mp has a spheroidal shape with small albedo spots.[5]
References
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External links
- Template:Mp – A New Type of Transneptunian Object, MPC news release
- Template:Mp – A Newly Discovered Planetesimal
- Our Solar System Is Getting Crowded, Science Magazine
- Template:Mp – A New Dynamical Class in the Outer Solar System, David Jewitt's Kuiper Belt website
- Lists and Plots: Minor Planets
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the JPL Small-Body DatabaseTemplate:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
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- Scattered disc and detached objects
- Discoveries by Chad Trujillo
- Discoveries by David C. Jewitt
- Discoveries by Jane Luu
- Discoveries by Jun Chen (astronomer)
- Astronomical objects discovered in 1996